quarterfinals match 2: 7th Sea 2e vs Star Wars: Force and Destiny if these two were movies or television shows, I would for sure pick 7th S...

in a mere four weeks, The Morning News will host an event the likes of which have never ever happened before in the history of books. it wi...

this is the sun-smeared peak of Thumb Butte, towering magnanimously above the Thumb Butte trail where we hiked today. thickly pine-scented, ...

an old facebook friend of mine, a few days ago, shared this Martin Luther King Jr. quote about the inability of violence to bring peace . ...

basically we have one week left in this quaint little Louisiana town. no, we haven't managed to sit ourselves down to watch Steel Magn...

there were exactly ten other blogposts on this blog with the word decade in them , before I wrote this one. is that serendipitous and rando...

there's a scene in John Green's latest book, Turtles All The Way Down , where two teenagers sit next to an outdoor in-ground pool an...

occasionally I still get emails from a little caribbean fusion restaurant in Houston, Texas. I haven't unsubscribed from those yet, for ...

everyone was talking about this Netflix series Stranger Things a few months ago. I'm not sure if it was the things that were being said...

during fall break in October, Patti introduced me to the woman who spins the yarn that Patti so often sends me.   we both ended up buying...

I have two of the loveliest friends to thank for originally exposing me to Hamilton: friend Liz, who teaches high school English around here...

I might love it if somebody decided to pay me to review all the sushi ever. what a daunting and delicious task that would be.  alas, to...

a few weeks back, friend Patti (who is, for your information, the most talented twitter-ist I have had ever the pleasure to follow on twitt...

friend Patti and I have driven miles and miles and miles in the last week. across all the states between Indiana and upstate New York. up an...

the day is ending with gratitude, somewhat diluted. I am trying not to think so much of myself this weekend. there was something on the ra...

the very oldest old draft in my blogger file of draft blogposts was last edited sometime in 2011. only that is no longer true-- I am editing...

spring break is nearly over, which is a little bit sad, but overall this break has been one of the most chock-full and rewarding spring bre...

back in November, which feels far more distant in timespace than it really is, a conversation began: @plaidsicle It looks like there...

ah, Thanksgiving. this calm little pod of a holiday to interrupt the gathering stress-storms of a soon-to-be-over semester. I should be re...

from time to time I run out of podcasts that I feel eager to listen to, and let the ones I'm not so eager to listen to pile up in the li...