The Book Rebel
Though it seems a shame of wasted youth to admit it, I didn’t really rebel much in high school. And it wasn’t because I was a preacher’s kid. My parents didn’t make me wear a chastity belt, or a long denim skirt. I was never forced to recite Psalms as penance for wearing red nail [...]
Outfittin’ Your Book Nook
I think all people who love books harbor secret dreams of living in a book-lined world, of carefully and artfully displaying those volumes they cherish as much as family albums.
Growing up, Meg and I loved to “play” library. The day my mother bought us a little date stamp during an Office Depot trip, we were [...]
Playground Extinctions
Well, despite my numerous rants about the state of the market, I have finally done it. We moved to a new home last week and are settling in. We left our old house in the hands of some nice dental students, and pray that they don’t indulge in recreational laughing gas or drilling things that [...]
That 25 Things Thing
There’s been an annoying little chain letter (plague) going around Facebook, where a person gets “tagged” by a buddy and is then obligated to publish 25 facts about herself. I decided to give in and play along. Here are my factoids. Feel free to reply with yours:
1. I love to write, and [...]