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What? All the mommy bloggers do monthly updates! I took this picture yesterday, Sunday, around 1:30 in the afternoon. He looks sad because I would not take him to the dog park. I would not take him to the dog park because his doctor… Continue Reading “Seven Months”
Book 49We generally have multiple copies of The Tortilla Curtain at the Used Book Store. I figured that GBS must be teaching it in English class. I figured that it was kinda like a One Book, One Chicago pick, where we all come to… Continue Reading “The Tortilla Curtain, by T.C. Boyle”
2:00 yesterday afternoon, the cupcake truck was outside my office. I went down to get one. Two, actually, Stef was busy doing something. It was raining outside, but not very hard. My jacket is water resistant and I hadn’t bothered to do my hair… Continue Reading “What the cupcake truck really needs…”
Now that everyone and her dog has a Coach bag (and I imagine they are making things for dogs now), the hipsters seem to be carrying Louis Vuitton. Besides the fact that I don’t get it – I find them ugly – I am… Continue Reading “Observation at the Airport”
Back in Washington. And for anyone who is new here, don’t bother trying to break into my house because I do not live alone, I have a dog and I have ADT. My cab was already parked out front when I came downstairs at… Continue Reading “And It Hasn’t Changed a Bit”
I’ve done some talking on this blog about my political identity. I have referred to myself as a Cook County Republican, which means (to me) that I am a fiscal conservative and social liberal and can’t abide The Machine. The reality is that I… Continue Reading “Political Rant”
In between making scarves for my grandfather’s church (more on that later), I am doing more fleece blankets: This yellow one is interesting because it isn’t strictly fleece. The material was something like a light sweatshirt. The yarn was a Red Heart from Penny’s… Continue Reading “Blankets 56 – 58”
Book 48 John Gregory Dunne was a writer. He was also the husband of Joan Didion and the brother of Dominick Dunne. Harp was a memoir that he wrote after two big, bad things happened in the late 1980’s. First, his younger brother killed… Continue Reading “Harp, by John Gregory Dunne”
Book 47 Norman Mailer was the kind of writer that liked to mess with your head and in his final novel, he outdid himself. This is the most disturbing thing I have read all year. Well, duh. The premise is that minions of the… Continue Reading “The Castle on the Forest, by Norman Mailer”
The Next Dark Age 