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I've walked into the Monk's Kettle multiple times, looked around at the wall-to-wall people, and decided on other, less packed venues. But last... More >>

Pull up a chair, gentle reader, and tuck into another 1,100 words from someone who really doesn't know what she is talking about, but is making... More >>

There comes a time in every crossworder's life when she picks up a Sunday New York Times Magazine, pen in hand, and rips through that sucka in an... More >>

Folks who know me know that I am a driver. I take my car everywhere. The Critical Mass people probably have me on a dart board in their club... More >>

"You know I avoid the Olympics like the plague," my mom recently wrote in an e-mail, "but you have to see the opening ceremony. It is just... More >>

I love mysteries, preferably British ones with asexual detectives who have odd personality quirks. My entire Netflix queue consists of what my... More >>

I recently got me one of them tomes I like to call "brainy bachelor bathroom books." It's one of the sort you can find dog-eared on the back of... More >>