This is my grimoire: A grimoire is a book of spells, but when I call it a spell book, half the people think I’m talking about a dictionary. A book of spells is like a cookbook, a collection of recipes, but “cookbook” just doesn’t do it for me, and is possibly misleading in case…
Month: June 2014
On the downside of being my friend
Being my friend has many perks, like you get to hang out with a crazy person who will help you bury the body without asking awkward questions, but it has a definite downside, and that downside is that you will someday find yourself in a blog post, or an essay, or, if you’ve done something…
Conversations with Jessica
Jessica: What are you doing? Me: Getting a ream of paper out of the closet. Jessica: What is a ream of paper? Me: A package of 500 sheets of paper. Although at one time a ream was 480 pages. You see— Jessica (trying to distract me): What’s for dinner? Me: And you know what else?…
School, just the way I like it
So in my quest to have more play in my life, I went to Mini College last week. It is possible that you do not think going to school qualifies as fun, but I am weird that way. The best thing about Mini College is there are no tests. Also, no grades. You just learn…
On what I have been up to
So I had excellent intentions of embarking on a blog challenge that started April 1, and suddenly here it is, practically the middle of June. I don’t normally ignore my blog for that long, and some of you have asked me privately if everything is all right, and I appreciate that. Jessica is fine—in fact,…