I woke up to coffee, oatmeal and Katherine Gregor wrote a lovely lovely review of I Woke Up In Love This Morning on Smashwords. Now I'm watching a documentary they did on Animal Planet on mermaids. I can't think of a better way to start the last day of my thirties.

The months before I turned thirty I remember feeling so…

So it's a typical morning for me. I'm drinking coffee, looking around the Internet. And then I saw Huntington posting a Donna Summer video. This isn't out of the ordinary; Huntington often sings disco around me. He once tried to get me to sing Abba. I did. He never asked again. Wise move. But I started noticing that Donna Summer videos were popping up on the news feed, and I thought oh crud. She's dead, isn't she? And minutes later,…

When I knew it was time to put out an essay collection, I kept debating on what its title should be. I wanted something that would jump out at the reader, saying "Come on, read me!" I wanted something that would fit who I was, what I write about.

A year ago I was asked to write an essay about the Muppets and how they influenced me (the movie was coming out soon) So I went…

All during the weekend I heard a song that immediately reminds me of eighth grade: "Fight For Your Right To Party" by the Beastie Boys. Of course this was because Adam Yauch died at the age of forty-eight, way too young. As mentioned, it reminded me of eighth grade. And how there are times I am so out of it when it comes to current music.

In 1986-1987, if you stepped in a multi-purpose room where middle school dances were held, there was one song that had to be played. It was a song…