First of all, this post is late. Sorry about that. Yesterday I was just too darn busy baking cookies to get this thing up in a timely manner. I know. It’s a crying shame. Second of all, this post features holiday music....
Read MoreToday there was an office holiday luncheon downstairs in the break room. For thirty minutes, I stayed upstairs at my desk, ignoring it. I knew exactly what was going to be spread out on those folding tables without even looking,...
Read MoreLike many other 30-year-olds, my concept of a great night out increasingly involves making a pot of white cheddar shells and cheese and staying in to watch House Hunters. I’ve always been slow to take to new trends —...
Read MoreI’ll admit it, I occasionally shop at Anthropologie. For a long time, the clerks would wrap your purchases in white tissue paper with little red dots on it. I saved this paper and used it during the holidays, because it...
Read MoreI was never really that much into “electronic” music. Until one day, I was. To be fair, this isn’t electronic music in the sense of trance, or house. It isn’t inaccessible. It’s pop. Good, clean,...
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We were honeymooning on Vancouver Island. On the drive from Ucluelet to the ferry terminal in...
Read MoreSometimes I get in a zone. A musical zone where I want to be mellow and introspective without necessarily being slow or quiet. In those instances, nothing really suits me like a good trip hoppy/electronica/acid jazzy fix. Who...
Read MoreIf only I had me a sharp knife. If only I had me a sharp knife, I wouldn’t have to go downstairs to the main kitchen at work to prep my food. Slicing tomatos, apples, avocados, rinsing lettuce — all that could be...
Read MoreRecently, Bruce Springsteen released The Promise — the reissue of 1978’s Darkness On the Edge of Town, plus a bunch of other good stuff. I put the box set on my Christmas list. In the meantime, I have been obsessively...
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On Saturday I went out with friends for an early birthday dinner at an Argentinian restaurant....
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