Ladies and gentlemen, can I please take a moment to look into the sky, throw my head back into a yell, and let loose with one astounding “Thank God!”? After what seemed to be an almost impossibly long year, 2009 is finally on its way out. Can I get an amen?!
Don’t get me wrong, 2009 [...]

This year has been rough. Two dear friends moved to opposite sides of the country, I lost my job, the director of my festival passed away (details on that entire experience in another post), and I’ve been dealing with some rather unpleasant gloom that decided to latch on to me somewhere around mid-April and just [...]

I love gifts. I do. I love wrapping them and giving them. I love opening them. I love watching other people open them.
Know what else I love? Cheese. That’s right; I said cheese. I love me some ricotta, some cheddar, a little colby; it’s all delicious. Well, except for bleu, but that’s another post. (Sorry, [...]

For those who haven’t heard, I’m still with the window-scraper. And I’m in love with him. Oh yeah. I’m tossing the word at him all the time now. I can’t help it. Naturally, the first time was the hardest. In fact, a la Miranda of Sex in the City fame, I picked a fight with [...]