10 years in 10 minutes (or less)

If there were ever a time for lists, I think this would be it.
2000:
I ring in the new millennium with my “best friend” in DC.
We graduate college in May, I start my first job June 1.
I report the stories, the breaking news, but mostly the boring features.
I go to LA, interview hometown boy working on [...]

This may or may not be a true story

I went to the beach this past weekend with…some people. And while I was there, these…people and I decided to go out to dinner at a fairly nice restaurant in town. I’d eaten there before and was glad to go back, because after all, most everything on the menu is fresh seafood smothered in some [...]

Regularly scheduled broadcasting has resumed

Aren’t you excited? I knew you would be. I am back, peeps! Back at work, back in the real world, back to opening the window at 4am to let the cats in, back to feeling anxious in my office. I really intended to do some blogging while we were gone, but OH MY GOD THE [...]

Because it wasn’t fun enough already

Okay, this is a quickie because it’s my night to cook supper and I’m between baked potatoes and a casserole. Here’s the rundown so far on how The Vacation’s going:

It’s so windy here right now that our umbrella has blown away three times and twice we didn’t even notice until it was too late.
My SIL [...]

By the numbers

Tomorrow we leave for the beach for a week. I’ve been talking this up for several reasons, not the least of which is that it’s the first time I’ll be spending a week with my in-laws since…ever. We’ve done long weekends, short weekends, overnights, but never a whole big fat solid week. It will be [...]