My brain’s halfway on vacation already, and I’m assuming that it’s the same for many of you, even though for most of us, “vacation” just means having off on Friday. So why not a little randomness? A. I just started reading a book called “Wrack and Ruin,” because a friend of mine at Norton told [...]
Archive for the ‘Drop Everything And Read’ Category
19 Mar
12:40 PM
On Sunday, I slept in until 12:40. I think it’s the latest I’ve slept in all year, and I think I’m now officially acclimated to Daylight Saving(s) time. And to prove that I didn’t cheat, I picked out “wand,” the 40th word on the 12th page of my favorite book about wizards.
4 Feb
Of the World
What a weekend. When you live the Hudson Valley of New York, you can choose to either be a New York fan or a New England fan, because we’re close to both. But I’m from Jersey, and I feel some loyalty to the Giants, who went ahead and won themselves the Super Bowl last night. [...]
23 Jan
And So I Poured the Milk
Last night I was treadmilling at the gym and my individual controls were stuck on the local Fox news station which was showing the 6:00 news. The news of the day was the untimely death of Heath Ledger, not the fact that I actually managed 30 seconds of jogging. (Which I did!) From my vantage [...]
17 Aug
Hot Six
I went to see my doctor about my knees yesterday. She agreed that my right leg is indeed longer than my left and told me it was because of tightness in my lower back. Then I told her that I’ve been trying to heal myself by doing exercises I got off the internet and I’ve [...]
14 Aug
Epilogue: Nineteen Years Later
Back in 1988, my ten-year-old heart burst with a secret. My parents were going to open a bookstore. All they needed was a location, shelves, and books, and we were going to be in business! After harboring this secret for months, the plan finally came to fruition, and I was allowed to tell my friends [...]
30 Jul
Pleasure of My Company
I was on the phone with my mother late last night, and she said, “I noticed you stopped blogging.” To that, I was like, “Geez, Mom, I just didn’t write yesterday. Work is very busy, and I had a completely non-eventful weekend.” “You didn’t do anything at all this weekend?” “It was a wash. I [...]
19 Jul
Deathly Hallows
I didn’t sleep well last night. My neighbor and I stood in the front yard at dusk and watched at least a dozen bats emerge from a part of the roof that connects our two homes. We’re going to make her roommate go up on a ladder tonight and plug that hole, you know, right [...]
10 Jul
If you can’t take the heat, get a kosher kitchen
When it’s hot like this outside, so hot that I can FEEL the air, think I’ll never see blue sky again, it reminds me of a day back when I was working in a bookstore in midtown Manhattan. The owner of the store was a very nice lady (I’ll call her Maxine for blog purposes.) [...]
15 Jun
Mama always said you were the chosen one.
I’m tired this morning. A little cranky. Hungover? My pinky is killing me from where I got hit by the kickball in practice last night. However, I scored our only run, so that was nice. I think that burst of sprinting made me more tired. The point is, I’m just going to give you all [...]
