…I am not ignoring you. Nor am I being condescending or aloof, I'm not bored with what you're saying, and I'm not wishing you would leave me alone, no matter what my facial expression might suggest. Honest. In fact, the odds are good I really want to talk to you, since weekend nights are usually [...]
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One of the best things about working for a newspaper is getting to, sometimes, meet your heroes. This time it was author Jim Butcher, creator of the best-selling Dresden Files books, and I had a wonderful 20-minute phone conversation with him about creating Dresden, his writing style, and why vampires will never die. Undie. Whatever. [...]
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Every year there's a lot of joking around about how old Teres is this birthday. "21, again," or "in my teens, celsius," or "I have to be at least 28 so I'll be older than my oldest son or it gets weird." And the thing is, it doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter how old [...]
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Jon Bon Jovi's probably not having his best day ever right now (check here for details) so I'm posting a pic of happier times. This is from Feb. 2009, when Teres was celebrating her massive weight loss and subsequent state of not-dying by treating herself (and me) to a fan club concert in Sayreville, NJ, [...]
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Because you know you've always wanted one. The Prop Store — previously The Prop Store of London, but they've expanded — has always offered great and bizarre props from the shows and movies we love, and long ago I signed up for some email alerts just to hear about things like this. It's Oz's werewolf [...]
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Teres and I, on a complete which-direction-should-we-go whim, drove to Mt. Dora on New Year's Eve as 2009 was winding down. It turned out to be a wonderfully peaceful day and a pleasant evening. Moral: Whimsical is good.
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