I don't know about you, but I've been a Harry Potter addict for the past ten years. I have waited anxiously for the release of each new book. I have salivated over the thought of seeing each newly released movie before anyone else. I have purchased each book and movie. All my Harry Potter books are well loved in a way that only a reader or a writer ( Read more... )

Often those in the media are referred to as vultures. I'm sure I've even referred to the media as that myself a few times. However, when I first met Mike, I became a little enchanted by the world of television media. The stories that Mike covered, the people he met, the places he got to visit... Anyone would have been a little starstruck by the ( Read more... )

My father's side of the family wasn't ever very close to my immediate family until very recently. About five years ago, my mother and my aunt (my father's sister) decided they should be close and my aunt and her then boyfriend ventured from Florida to Colorado to meet everyone. I had talked on the phone to my aunt before, and when her and her ( Read more... )