Okay, so there was good news when I got home on Friday--this e-mail, which should have been accompanied by strains of cherubic choirs singin...

Wednesday night my laptop crashed, and I haven't backed up my data. Not for a long time. I won't bore you with all the important st...

1. If there are Sustainability Studies programs at universities, should there not also be Profligacy Studies programs? 2. If there is a M...

Things I've recently learned. 1. How to knit . I used to know this when I was a girl. A few years ago, on a trip with my best friend, we...

I love this blog. I might secretly love it more than other, more important, things, which I shan't name (but which do not include membe...

I saw Elizabethtown this weekend, to which I had looked forward despite all the warning signs. I found myself not particularly disappointed...

In the spirit of The Best American Poetry 2005 , published and in the stores by mid-September*, I am posting my Best Movies of 2005 list no...

Tonight, Joshua Redman and the Elastic Band came to town. It turns out that Salt Lake, for being a town with the kind of nightlife that ins...

As Signifying Nothing notes, a great feature of academia (if you can call the community college "academia," not that I'm disr...

I have bragged, and recently, that there's a certain kind of bread--a classic french-style baguette--that I can now make in my sleep (ot...

Following counterintuitive's practice of using acronyms (SUMB=swearing under my breath), we decided to speak in acronyms although XC@JD ...

Even though all the cool kids are bowling now, my adorable husband the historian and I have stayed at home, making grape juice from our ve...

On Sunday it was my writing group, which meant that it was time to pull another poem together. I've often said that being in my writing...

After reading sleepy-e 's recent post "Dating for Dummies, Vol.2," I have been thinking about gender differences re: clothing....

Today was the Wasatch Rendezvous meet at Cottonwood Recreation Center. It's a great way to spend a Saturday morning--the junior varsity...

Yesterday, I watched my son come in third in a 3-miler. It was a beauty of a finish--he pulled ahead of the fastest runner from his school,...

Last night, my husband came out of his study after making an examination of our finances. "Let's not write any more checks until we...

Yesterday, I attended--as a spectator--the Murray Invitational Cross Country Meet. My youngest son, master of summer school and of last quar...

Readers of this blog who've been waiting breathlessly to find out if I ever cleaned my office, an announcement: The Office Is Clean. It...

Here's my Google poem, heavily edited, but hey, I've been to a workshop or two in my time: Metonymic Bruiser Movie for fans of West ...