Shilling

A note to everyone based in the metro-Atlanta area: if you find yourselves in need of a photographer(s), consider the work of my friends Amber and Bob Riggle at Indigo Photographers (recently live site – bravo!).
Between the two of them, they have over twenty years of photography experience, and are also two of the kindest, [...]

Question

Are you considered ‘alumni’ if you never actually graduate from an institution? This is a very important question. For two reasons:
1) How do I change my Myspace and Facebook profiles to reflect the last year and half of my life without using the word “alumni”? Instead of, like, “burn-out”?
2) If I’m NOT, in fact, alumni, [...]

For the record

This page of dresses will always make me swoon. I’ve stayed away for a very long time owing to principles and poverty. But, today, induced by another blogger, and with a legitimate need for a new suit, I tripped and fell here.
Yes, please.
But, no, no, I’m not really going to buy it. For once in [...]

The place to be

I just received an e-mail from my friend Katie, who’s currently in Tennessee with her family.
I have always loved the state of Tennessee. Katie helped remind me why. And now, perhaps, if I share it, so will you: Dolly’s MY Friend
I mean, yeah! Dolly so totally gets me, people. I mean. Better get to living? [...]

Semi-sabbatical

Sooooo, this is just a post to say I may not be posting very regularly for a while. I’m dealing with some…stuff…and, um…some more stuff. And well, that stuff is keeping me very busy. And when I’m not juggling all the stuff, I’m pet and house-sitting for not one, but two, sets of friends. [...]

Snippets

The dog I’m pet-sitting over the holidays sighs a lot. Presumably it’s when she’s fed up about something but just does NOT want to get into it right now. I think we were separated at birth.
Talking to my friend Robin on the phone the other day about our mutual yoga practice, I lamented having not [...]

Get ‘em high

This blog post is long overdue. But, forgive me, I’ve been trying in vain to think of some way to write the heaviness and melodrama out of it, and just write it all out flatly. But since I’ve come up with nothing, I give you instead the words of one Mr. Kanye West…
My freshman year [...]

These have always brought me luck

Okay, forgive me for being out of the loop. BUT. I haven’t had cable, or even local stations, for about a year. And I’m sitting here house-sitting for friends, and I turned on the TV and found that I had been magically deposited in the early 1990’s. Because, I swear to God, this commercial was [...]

Personal best

I am already over online dating. AGAIN. Yes, I’ve hid my profile. AGAIN. This is beginning to remind me of “Catholic aerobics,” as one of my friends calls mass. Up, down, up, down (God likes to keep us agile).
The last straw? Noticing that one of the professors in my academic department had viewed my [...]

List-making

Setting – Crackly cell phone conversation from Atlanta to Tucson, heavily approximated.
Katie: I’m so excited! The office bake-off is this Friday. I think I’m going to make profiteroles. But then the ice cream might get all melty.
Me: You should definitely make the profiteroles. Isn’t there chocolate sauce too?
Katie: Yes! But the ice cream? I [...]