I’m thankful for:
1. Smoked ahi spread from R. Field2. Prozac3. Gum4. The little DVD player I bring to restaurants5. Castle Rock Pinot Noir6. Hip hop7. Good books (currently reading Mudbound by Hilary Jordan and it’s fantastic)8. Dirty Sexy Money, the Hills, and Top Chef9. Riedel stemless wine glasses 10. The word, ‘balls’I’m not thankful for:
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The 2008 National Book Awards ceremony was held last night. Peter Matthiessen won in the fiction category for Shadow Country. In nonfiction, the award went to Annette Gordon Reed’s The Hemingses of Monticello.
I’ve heard of the latter and really want to read it, but haven’t heard of any of the fiction [...]

If you ever want to feel super lazy head to Rachel Ross’s blog. She’s an Ironman champion who runs more in a day than I do all year. She’s truly a junkie, but she pops triathalons instead of Vicoden (actually she pops Valium, but she’s got some migraine issues right now). Anyway, [...]

I had a really good birthday. Like, for real. It started out with my four year old making me breakfast. It was four Mini Wheats in a huge bowl of milk. So cute. Then Mister took her to school and I went for a long walk listening to awesome music [...]

Headline: Woman gives birth to triplets for her daughter. Really?Dalenberg (the grandmother) offered herself as a surrogate when Kim Coseno and her husband, Joe, were waiting to adopt. The couple used in vitro fertilization, and embryos were implanted in Dalenberg’s uterus.Really?Why didn’t they just go through with the adoption? I’m kind of freaked [...]

On NPR there was a segment about political news junkies who can no longer get a good fix. The nation is coming down. How to come to terms with post election blues? Do you suffer from it? I think I may have a few symptoms. For example, I don’t know [...]

The only elephant in the room.That was like new year’s eve last night! Our house looks like McCain bombed us. My friends, family (including my ninety-six-year old grandmother) and I watched Obama’s calm and humble acceptance speech in silence, in awe of what he accomplished and what the country has accomplished. “He [...]

This is such an exciting day. I can barely contain myself. Instead of rambling on please read a little excerpt from A History of Women’s Voting by Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner. It reminds us how very far we’ve come.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created [...]