Dear America, When I awoke yesterday morning, the better part of President Obama’s inauguration was already over. I turned on the television just as he was walking down Pennsylvania Avenue with his First Lady, waving to the crowd, on what was obviously a bitterly cold day. The journalists covering the event were emotional, reporting the scene with tears…
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I used to watch a lot of movies. I used to know a fair bit about the history of movies, too. In fact, my original chosen minor at university was supposed to be film studies. It said it was available in the 1996 UAC guide, I swear. However when it came to enrollment week, once…
My sister-in-law gave me a Borders gift voucher for my birthday. I went in there the other week to buy The Slap and I swear it was in my hand when the warm pink cover of McSweeney’s on the adjacent shelf captivated me like a Siren’s call. (Yes, I mixed the metaphor {sight/sound}. Oops, never mind)…
Been tinkering with my feeds, since Google asked me too. Hope this works. Thinking of America this weekend with the inauguration xx
Keira is watching Sesame Street and the letter of the day is ‘O’. Keira: Mum, what does ‘O’ and ‘H’ spell? Me: It spells ‘Oh’ Keira: But what do they spell together? Me: The word, ‘Oh’ Keira (confused): Oh… Me: You see! There you go, you said it right! Keira dropped it there; I think…
Like a fog, I’m just going to walk into this post and hope I come out at the other side in the right place. ****** One beginning of the story is with my vomiting last Friday night, all night, and then sleeping all the following day, desperate to recoup enough in time to make an…
Well dream no longer. You could. The media is loving this story. Heck, I might even apply.
I took close to zero photos before Christmas, at home or at the beach. My extended family members did, though, and I’ve yet to ask them if I could use some of theirs here on the blog please, pretty please? They are all superior photographers to myself, so I hope they say yes. Be that as…
