First, I’d like to declare my undying love for Snoopy of Peanuts fame. He’s smart, funny, good-looking, and a little bit mischievous (also canine, which is always a plus). Sometimes my dog reminds me of the Peanuts cartoons I grew up reading, which makes me reach out and hug him. He’s disconcerted by quick motion,…
Flaky Like a Warm Biscuit
I like to think that I’m usually pretty dependable. Ask me to bring you warm soup when you’re sick, and I’ll be there as quickly as possible. Plan to hang out with me, and I’ll be there more or less on time. But sometimes my inner flake refuses to be squashed (or the directionally challenged…
Saturday Footnotes and Seamus Heaney
This isn’t a real post so much as a clump of small thoughts from today. First, I just started reading a book that I’ve hoped to read for a few years (my “to read” list is a little bit out of hand, so sometimes things get lost in the shuffle) . It’s called Ibid: a…
BFFAEAE
I have a few friends who are really more like family than friends. They’re the good type of family, too–the ones you actually want to see on holidays and talk to when you have a few spare minutes. Even if we go for years without seeing each other, it doesn’t make any difference. Everything can…
The Return of the Mop
I’ve owned a mop for years. My mop, however, is like the mop on the Swiffer commercials. It sits in the laundry area, unused and dejected about 364 days out of the year. I’m not a completely terrible homemaker; I do vacuum fairly regularly (when the dog hair tumbleweeds start to roll across the mesa…
Walk-off!
Can’t handle too much seriousness around here, so how about a good old-fashioned Zoolander quote: Derek Zoolander: What say we settle this on the runway… Han-Solo? Hansel: Are you challenging me to a walk-off… Boo-Lander? Watched that this weekend, and I have to say that seeing grown men have a gasoline fight never gets old. …
Movie Magic
As I waited for the previews to end before When In Rome, I was thinking about why I like chick flicks so much. It certainly isn’t because I believe they’re realistic. I don’t even want some perfect-except-for-misunderstanding-x-about-him guy to see me from across the room and follow me around the world. It might be cute…
Small, but valuable. 