August 2009

I don’t know much about dating, since I haven’t done it in over twenty years, but I get lots of stories from my “kid” sister, Kristin. Note pose. You would never find me pulling a cheesecake pose for the camera, but Kristin has never met a camera she doesn’t like. Kristin is 27, a high [...]

Well, yet another Jane Austen spinoff has arrived – Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Huh?  But yes, reader, it’s a real book. And a real phenomenon.  Amazing.  And there’s another new one:  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim.  Zombies, Sea Monsters.  I can’t wait to see what’s next:  Gone with the Zombies.  [...]

To rush out and pick up your copy of Julia London’s Summer of Two Wishes! Fabulous, fun summer reading, or fall reading if you fall behind– but don’t wait to pick it up, go now. Now! (Are you still sitting here?) It’s also my 19th wedding anniversary. Nineteen years living with Mr. Right, Mr. Always [...]

I’m sorry, but it does.  It’s hot as hell everywhere, and there is no escaping it.  Plus, no one is in their office because even though there is no escaping it, they are all out of the office trying to escape it.  As for me, I have a book due in about a month, and [...]

John Hughes movies resembled my youth. Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off… so many more, probably best remembered by checking the John Hughes imdb site. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000455/ When the movies came out, I was at about the same age as the film characters, and they all seemed fairly realistically drawn, [...]

This is so wrong, and yet so right all at once. Mostly wrong, of course. But I want these women to get a movie deal anyway. WAUSAU, Wis. — A married man who planned to rendezvous with one of his handful of lovers at an eastern Wisconsin motel instead found himself bound, blindfolded and assaulted [...]