Today I was walking down the mall to get a salad from the Blue Ridge Country Store (across from the post office, beside Bagby’s sandwich shop, near the Pavilion), and I saw my cousin’s husband walking toward me with the telltale cardboard salad container, and for a moment we stopped to gush about how amazing [...]
Archive > August 2007
The Wife
Today I started reading The Wife by Meg Wolitzer. So far it’s great. Almost too great. Sometimes I don’t trust contemporary books that are so well-written. Sometimes I doubt that they can be meaningful as well. There are good novels, where you sit back and say “Wow, great sentence” over and over again. Or “This [...]
Armenian Princess
I don’t want to neglect Diana. Diana and I are in the Recluse Honor Society. Diana comes home from work, reads The Odyssey, watches Carnivale, and makes thousands of dollars worth of beautiful jewelry. She sits on her smoky rug and tweezes sterling silver into necklaces for hours. Sometimes she reads my blog. Sometimes she [...]
Extracurricular Activities
For most of my life I have avoided clubs and extracurricular activities. I was always more comfortable hanging out by myself or with one other person than as part of a group. I also hated being committed to stuff, because I like having the flexibility of taking a nap if I need a nap. When [...]
Local Sightings (of me)
I love being “spotted” at the library with a bag full of Philip Roth novels. It is so much better than being spotted at Target buying fake nails. One Saturday afternoon I was at the library contemplating checking out the new biography of the Hilton sisters and I ran into my friend Abbey, who was [...]
A Challenge to Myself
Never take the time to write a blurb for your homepage, replacing “This is just a small space for you to write an introductory about yourself. Nothing too long should be written here. It should be just enough to tease your visitors to find out more.” Never take the time to upload a picture of [...]
My Neighborhood Just Got Richer
My neighbors just won $100,000 in the lottery! So now I have to remove my grandfather’s bumper sticker that says “The lottery is a tax on stupid people” and put up one that says “The lottery could have paid for my retirement if I hadn’t been so snobby about it.” [Love ya, Poppy.] I wrote [...]
Morning Routine
Since Darren has a real job, working full time as web designer, and I have a fake job that involves lots of lounge-work, I have become interested in perfecting our morning routine. He gets up around 9 to get ready for work, while I occupy myself with sleeping. Then he kisses me goodbye around 10 [...]
French Restaurants: A Haiku
Love French restaurants!
When I visit la belle France,
Just plain restaurants.
Moms on Acid (Did anyone else read The Babysitters Club books when she was little?)
“I think the moms are dropping acid,” said Mary as we sat around her bed, waiting for the phone to ring.
“I think so too,” said Debbie. “And last night, after the [...]
