A couple of weeks ago I got an iPod nano and it's no understatement to say the thing's changed my life. Originally I was just looki...

One thing that's both refreshing and maddening about the nomadic lifestyle is how it tends to make me collect mental clip files for futu...

Today is a banner day-- at work, they've given me an office all my own. Yes, it's tiny and windowless and someone's left behind...

I now have added incentive to keeping avoiding the Papa John's mere blocks from my house: today they forced someone to wear a giant, ant...

This past weekend my husband and I took a trip to Austin to float on tubes down the Guadalupe River and attend a wedding. In that order. H...

I don't intend to make a habit of issuing broad proclamations about what Should and Should Not Be Done in Public Radio, but my extravaga...

I've been in kind of a writing slump lately. Days, weeks have gone by without something leaping up and stinging me, saying, "This!...

Bored half to death on a breathlessly hot day in the tiny town, I've decided to explore the close-up functions of our kickass digital ca...

"All women become their mothers; that is their tragedy. Men do not, and that is theirs." --Oscar Wilde   Ways I am Becoming My Mo...

I haven't had cable in nearly six years, not counting a brief mistaken glance into the full spectrum provided a shady cable guy in the l...

This is Abby. Tell me she is not beautiful and I will tell you, correctly, that you're a dirty liar. Abby and I run together and it...

I made ten new enemies today. Or rather, my uterus made ten new enemies. My fallopian tubes snaked across time, space, and state boundarie...

I've decided I really like the tiny, tiny town, and it's for precisely the reasons that I originally thought I would hate it. Take ...

That title reflects the three major achievements of epsom salts. I'm adding it to my list of lesser-known miracles of Jesus, right next...

Something is Wrong with my big toe, Bad Wrong. I'm wasting no time with literary adornments or questions of relevancy because it hurts ...

One of the interesting things about being married to the military is how often and how explicitly you are required to fill out various forms...

OK, you're going to have to bear with me here with the image posting. I'm new at this. Here's a shot from this weekend that prov...

So this is how it's going to be-- some shots will be forced upon you and others you can choose to view by clicking on them. I have decid...

This past weekend, the husband and I went to the beach to watch people flaunt the laws of physics and laugh in the face of God as they sculp...