This is my last night being 27. It's been a good year.

If you stay in one room all weekend with the radio on WBUR, you can hear "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" not just once but four times. I am embarrassed that I know this.

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( Read more... )

Driving up from the Cape on Wednesday, coming off the bridge and cresting a little hill, traffic suddenly stopped. There wasn't even any time to change lanes. I saw truck loaded up with animal cages, a little car, other vehicles pulled over on the edge of the road, and people in the median running. As traffic inched forward I passed a woman and ( Read more... )

Breathes there a man with soul so dead ( Read more... )

Today has been a beautiful, wondrous, glorious spring day. Every blossom on every tree and bush and flower is in perfect bloom. The sun is shining. The birds are singing. The sky is blue and the clouds are breezing across the sky. Tonight, the peepers will be out ( Read more... )

This headline from today's news somehow epitomizes pop culture and distills eight salacious elements into one tragedy ( Read more... )

Dona nobis pacem.

It's 12:34 on 07/08/09.

Orale.

(Except in this country actually it's 08/07/9.)

I got my check today ( Read more... )