One of my little sorority sisters e-mailed me last night to report that while traveling on a Honolulu-Los Angeles flight, she sat in the same row as a woman who was reading Love Like That. It is said that the woman had red hair, looked like she was in her 20’s and didn’t appear to […]

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Reston, VA–Obscure Author Bored at Temp Job, Spends Free Time Reading Random Crap on Internet and Getting Irritated by Overwhelming Masses of Silly People Out There
Example #1: You’ve somehow figured out how to turn on a computer and access the www. While there, you’ve somehow managed to take your smarts even further to: a) post […]

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Wouldn’t you know that the date of the Season 3 premiere falls during my cross-country driving excursion? All I have to say is that I hope nobody’s TV recording capabilities crap out on September 20th.

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Burgers & Book StuffI think I’ve made the awesome discovery of the world’s most efficient McDonald’s drive-thru right here in Northern Virginia. You drive into the line and there’s the menu so you can look at it. Then, standing in front of another menu is an actual, physical person who takes your order and asks, […]

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Mustang vs. AccordThe way the dealer put it to me was this. “You came for the Mustang, you saw the Accord, now you’re confused. Well, that’s like being with a man for 10 years and thinking you want to marry him–but then meeting another man that you’re suddenly wild about. There’s the […]

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Twenty ReasonsI’ll be honest here. I might be a traitor to both my genre and my sex. I say this because unlike some of my contemporaries, I wouldn’t compare chick-lit bashing to being raped, nor would I balk at a literary author’s blithe insinuation that me and mine are all a bunch of sluts.
I do, […]

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Sorry, But I Have to Get PoliticalThis month’s issue of Glamour runs an interesting comparitive piece on Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice as potential Presidential candidates in 2008. What doesn’t throw me is that they both dress in Oscar de la Renta, step on Ferragamos. What does throw me (and in my opinion, […]

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You know you’re not in California when in the produce department of a supermarket, you ask the nearest employee where you can find the edamame and he looks at you like you’re some freak before leading you to the aisle where they shelve the dried legumes. Not that I actually thought I was in California […]

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Not to undermine the seriousness of that airline disaster in Greece–anyone who knows me (among all the unlucky strangers who’ve gotten to sit next to me on flights) knows how I feel about flying, God, no, don’t make me do it–but isn’t there something kind of hideously weird about a plane being able to fly […]

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To all the pet lovers out there, I say please love your pet(s) as much, if not more, than it is possible! I say this because I am currently suffering the devastating loss of my precious dog, Chief, who died suddenly on Tuesday night from complications of congestive heart failure. Chief was a […]

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