one small cup of coffee kept me up most of the night. i fear i am getting old. where has my youth gone?

my year included:
- 67 books read, excluding picture books. the highlight of which was Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. easily the best book i read all year. relatedly, i went to a taping of NPR's Talking Volumes ( Read more... )

this morning i listened to the beatles as i drove to work. i admit my exposure to the beatles has been rather limited, but chad is determined to change that ( Read more... )

I spend my days immersed in children's books, usually the newest and yet to be published. But some of my favorites are still the ones I read as a kid. Maybe you read some of these too. What do you remember?

Here's a little quiz to test your children's literarure knowledge/memory:

1. In the children's book Abel's Island, how long is Abel ( Read more... )

I don’t always feel like a writer. For a long time, I didn’t tell people I wrote, much less refer to myself as a writer. A longtime friend of mine pointed out to me just how little I talk about it with a genuinely confused look and the words, “You write?” I guess ( Read more... )

I haven’t been feeling very written lately. Every letter gets deleted as many times as it is typed.

Dear December,
You taste like summer in my steps.
I could walk forever in what you have invariably been.

Since rely, m

Dear Dancing Days,
Two years in your arms
(my heart, my heart)

Since rely, m

These are the letters that made it

I got back into town yesterday afternoon, and I am just now getting around to checking my email and such. Is it possible to get jet lagged when you don’t leave the time zone? All I wanted to do is sleep. Tomorrow we are off again. This time for fun, not business ( Read more... )

As if I didn’t love my husband enough, the look on his face as he whisperyelled to me during Broken Social Scene, “There are five guitars going, and it doesn’t sound muddy!” was priceless. I’d have married him all over again ( Read more... )

( Chad, don't read this until you finish the book )

i decided i needed to shake things up a little. you can too. before the end of Saturday, do ten things you've never done before and one thing you're afraid of ( Read more... )

I’m feeling good these days. My presentation last weekend at a state professional organization was a pretty big deal for me, and since it went well, it may mean more of that in the future. I may become quite the traveler as my company deploys me near and far to talk about books. Perhaps a year from now, my opinions on travel will have changed as ( Read more... )