I thought if I didn’t point it out, nobody would call me on my 101-in-1001 ending this past November. I got through forty-something items, which means I probably could have done better. Interestingly, one of the things I figured would never happen — #29, Get published — I did actually manage to do, and one [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...I don’t know if I can finish The Five Red Herrings after all. There’s just too many times for me to keep track of, especially when I am not reading it all in one setting. Am I getting adult-onset ADD that I can’t focus anymore? Or is it just the book?
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When staying in Augusta for multiple days, PACK RUNNING SHOES.
» Read the rest of this entry ...Ahh, cookies. ‘Tis the season, you know.
(Although, really, I don’t understand that. Why is it the season for cookies? Why not cupcakes? Are cupcakes just a trend? Why don’t people churn out cookies by the dozen for, oh, Fourth of July? Or Arbor Day? Aren’t those perfectly good days to eat cookies?)
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The night before Eid, I wrote briefly about this year’s hajjis and my envy that I was not among them, and I promised to explain further the next morning when I was not so tired. Three mornings have come and gone, and still I have not explained, and even now I am not going to, [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Eeks, y’all. I’m tired. It’s December 19th, which means I’ve gone twelve whole days without a post. I can’t believe it’s been so long. Also, it’s Eid — happy, happy Eid to everyone, and especially the lucky hajjis in Saudi, who I hope are praying for me, particularly as I am doing my best not [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...As I drove home Thursday evening, having just spent a good twenty minutes pressing the complex and heart-wrenching Atonement on my book club as our next assignment, I had to wonder if maybe I was taking this “adult” business a bit too seriously. After all, despite much evidence to the contrary, growing up doesn’t have [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...So I’m wondering, does it make me a bad person that I read the 2008 hurricane forecast — seven hurricanes, three of them “major” — and thought, “Halleleujah”?
» Read the rest of this entry ...You’d think on a day I did nothing but laze around the house, watch The American President for the twelfth time, and make chicken broth, you’d think on that day I’d sit down and write a real post, wouldn’t you?
And yet, you would be wrong. So sorry to disappoint. It seems that when I get [...]