For the first time in my life I bought a bottle of wine that is intended solely for me, not as a housewarming gift or a “Shit! What do we take to their party?” escape pod. Yes, I am going to be 30 this May.
Yes, 30, IP. Not 34. That’s you in [...]
A great article on Darren McCarty, forward for the Detroit Red Wings from 1993 to 2004. My favorite player third to Steve Yzerman and Chris Osgood, I was more than upset when he was signed by the Calgary Flames in 2005. Hockey, though, is only part of his comeback as he focuses on [...]
When I stumble across weird Saline, Michigan news and see that the majority of my high school classmates are married (even the ugly ones! Ay!), I have to take deep breaths and keep on telling myself:
“Focus on their jobs. Focus on their jobs. No one has a career as good (read: well-paying) [...]
For 2008, I have decided to come up with a new category, based entirely on my runs at the gym and . . . drum roll, please . . . the horrible TNT movies that happen to be playing at the time. I have decided to call this category “Gym Shorts” because these posts [...]
Welcome to the second-to-last book list of 2007. I continue the tradition of not posting the final list until a week or more into the New Year. Yay me! However, given that I finished my last book of the year on December 30 on my way back from New York (I didn’t [...]
I think I have to start writing sometime. And I know I need to write about the things I had been meaning to write about before my grandmother died. Among the writing tasks were the 2007 book awards, the last book list of 2007, my resolutions for this year, and my review of last year. [...]
On Friday, my father called me at work precisely at 9am. My breath caught and I quickly said to myself, “I’m okay.” My father was a bit puzzled by this reaction, but I told him that I knew what he was going to say.
My father told me that he was sorry, but that my grandmother [...]
There’s video extant from one of my grandfather’s rollicking birthday parties back in the early ‘90s. The birthday parties where the family would book a mariachi band, cook a lot of food, make a lot of canela con tequila, and wake up my grandparents at 5am with “Las mañanitas” playing for my grandfather. [...]
