Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book had everything I usually hate: jumping through time, crazy eyeroll-inducing events, and a multitude of characters. And I loved it all. So well done, Jess Walter! Although…
Easter Sunday
Happy Easter! This weekend zoomed by in a puff of flour. I spent yesterday baking Easter bread and ham pies with mom…and then gave them all away, like the magnanimous person I am. Or rather, the person who would eat…
Throwback Thursday: Slick Willie
Candidate Clinton’s husband was quite a character in the heyday of his career. I feel a little bad that my innocent brother gets caught in the crossfire of most of my throwback pics, but that’s what you get for parents…
Analysis Paralysis: Craft room color
As is my way, the craft room looks 100x worse now that I’ve started to “organize” it. The plan is to paint the walls yellow, move in some of the white cubby shelves that I’ve had since the original apartment,…
Currently
It’s the first day of spring and it’s freaking snowing outside. What in the everliving crap is this? Nails: I’ve gone two weeks without biting my nails, and that is enough for me to start polishing them again. This week…
Throwback Thursday: March 1995
Green dress, white and green nails, and in the epitome of 90s accessorizing … a shamrock choker. I was working full-time at JCPenneys, in the Juniors Department. I was talked to at least once a week about my hemlines being…
