A Very Long Engagement by Sébastien JaprisotI’m going to try to update this briefly while I’m home. But let me warn you: my parent’s dial-up Internet connection is powered by a hamster on a wheel. It’s already crashed twice this morning. I’m gearing up for my bridal shower, which will take place under a circus tent in the backyard. Only a [...]
My stomach is in knots. I hate flying in commercial airliners. I never minded flying in my dad’s Cessna. But every time I take my seat in a commercial airliner, surrounded by strangers reading Stephen King novels and listening to iPods, I freak the frig out and watch in slow motion as my life’s happiest [...]
A friend of mine likes to point out, whenever he gets the chance, that blogging is a total waste of time. That friend, in case you’re curious, is Zipper Boy and I’m going to continue to keep his identity secret because he is still dating Zipper Girl might get back together with Zipper Girl. He likes to [...]
“On such a trip as mine, so much there is to see and to think about that event and thought set down as they occurred would roil and stir like a slow-cooking minestrone.” – John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley I was wrong about Wednesday’s post being my final tent diaries entry. I remember I wrote [...]
Just before I left Florida, my friend Ricci gave me a dragonfly, with this message written on the wings: “All that glitters is not gold. All who wander are not lost.” I’m sleepy now as I write this. Uninspired for the most part, sneezing in an auto repair shop, where I’m getting the oil changed [...]
Look at the pug’s face! Just look at how awe-struck he is standing at the summit of Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs in mid-June, his paws sinking into snow for the first time in his pug life. After spending two weeks in the Midwest lavishing in the company of friends, good food and pillow-top mattresses, [...]
Hey. Let’s take a break from road tripping for three minutes and 17 seconds to watch Regina Spektor’s new music video. The song is called Laughing With and it’s off Spektor’s new album, Far. For more on this lovable songstress and why, if you haven’t already enjoyed her music you should, read my future sister-in-law Leilani’s post [...]
Now onto part three of this adventure, in which Missouri and Kansas treat me well. I regret not writing about Hannibal, Missouri, Mark Twain’s boyhood town. Folks in Hannibal say the town is the setting for Twain’s most famous stories. Tom Sawyer. Huck Finn. Becky Thatcher. The whole wonderful lot sitting by the Mississippi riverbank in Hannibal. [...]
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