Drummer’s Girlfriend
I was never a Justin Bieber, One Direction, boy-band fanatic, but what I feel watching Micah play must be what the hype is all about.
Collecting Vinyls Without a Record Player
Giving up when confronted with the imperfections of the world isn’t going to make the world a better place.
Remembrance of a Dirty Childhood
I had forgotten land existed beyond the concrete.
Ten Stephen King Books and What I Thought of Them III: The Bachman Lands
Photo Credit Reader beware, I’m about to talk about scares. (And with the right title: it’s “What I Thought of Them,” Me from Last Fall. You mistyped your own title, you git!) Ahem. As always, I (the post calvin’s self-appointed Stephen King scholar) spun a randomizer...
Struggle to Heal
Fifteen years into this struggle, and it’s difficult not to be discouraged that nothing is different.
My Complicated History with Mice
I would be lying if I said I hadn’t been hoping that Cora, the mousetrap queen, would be able to take care of this.
Walking in Place
I wonder if driving isn’t transportation’s equivalent of scrolling: too much input, too quick to remember more than a fraction of it.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
At around 7:10 p.m., the Anderson asked how the Fitzgerald was doing, to which Captain McSorley responded: “We are holding our own.” That was the last communication heard from the ship.
Five Michelle Recommended Books
It’s not an exaggeration to say this book changed my life.
I grump
But I frown and sigh all the way to the car, down the highway, and into the parking lot.
