Let's Talk About My Vacation, Part 2: So I Think I'm Going To Move To Cape Town
First of all, I'm just going to put it out there right now: South Africa is my new favorite country. Apologies to Vietnam, which has now had to cede its title, and my condolences also to Paris, which I...
View ArticleLet's Talk About My Vacation Part 3: Cape Point With a Side Of Penguins
I am recapping, excruciatingly slowly, the two-week trip we took to South Africa last year. Here is part one, about our layover in Paris, and here is part two, about Cape Town. Expect me to be finished...
View ArticleLet's Talk About My Vacation Part 5: Hermanus and Gansbaai
I am recapping, excruciatingly slowly, the two-week trip we took to South Africa last year. Here is part one, about our layover in Paris; here is part two, about Cape Town; here is part three, about...
View ArticleLet's Talk About My Vacation Part 6: The Train From Cape Town To Johannesburg
I am recapping, excruciatingly slowly, the two-week trip we took to South Africa last year.Here is part one, about our layover in Paris; here is part two, about Cape Town; here is part three, about...
View ArticleThings I've Done In Minneapolis So Far
1. Eaten baked potato pizza. It tasted like it would taste if a person carrying a platter of potato skins collided with a person carrying a pizza, and calamity ensued in such a way that the potato...
View ArticleConsider This A Placeholder Until My Mental Faculties Have Returned
So I thought I should probably pop in and say that no, I'm not dead, I've just been in London.read more
View ArticleThe Next One Will Actually Have Pictures
I was sitting here on my couch just now, trying to vanquish writer's block through that ancient and time-tested method of staring at the blank computer screen and wondering idly whether Alec Baldwin...
View ArticleThe Last Best Place
You know how Princess Diana said that famous thing about there being "three of us in this marriage"? Well, I feel like there are four of us in my marriage, and the other two are John Sterling and Suzyn...
View ArticleAnd Now For Some More Germany
I must say one thing about Germany before I say anything else: they have got this whole sleeping thing figured out. They have a great many other things figured out better than the rest of us, of...
View ArticleThe Last Hurrah
Sean and I went down to Palm Springs last weekend for a little last-minute R&R before the baby is scheduled to arrive in six weeks time. We wanted to get away, just the two of us, for a few days of...
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