I am a human, and this post, this blog, and everything on or referenced by this website came from a real oxygen-to-carbon-dioxide-exchanging, squishy-brained (but helmet-wearing),…
∞I am saddened to hear that poet and activist Bud Osborn has died. I have just been drafting a post on road trip literature, and…
Continue reading → Thank you, Bud
∞I thought I was being really clever combining the words procrastination and knitting to make "procrastiknitting" to describe the feeling of wanting to work on…
Continue reading → Not so clever after all. Darn.
∞Though I consider myself a pretty good speller and perceptive picker-upper of words, the connection between spelling and pronunciation of "segue" -- meaning to make…
Continue reading → Things no one tells you: How to pronounce segue
∞The other day on the train, a woman across the aisle dropped her book, and at a glance, you could tell it was of the…
Continue reading → E-books for the ladies of the world
∞E-books are perfect for bibliophile germophobes. You may miss the old-book smell, random marginalia, and chance of finding somebody's old photos and grocery list embedded…
Continue reading → 1 reason to replace paper books with an e-reader
∞Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation is asking its Twitter followers to tweet their New Year's resolutions, pledging what they will do this year to…
Continue reading → Because #nightmarishvisionofaworldgonetohell would be too long of a hashtag
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