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I realized today I have reached the point where receiving rejection is now less psychologically affecting than my period. Yes, that unhappy event (um, the arrival of the rejection letter) that has more than once driven me to tears has become less stressful than many things in my life, but this is the one that

by Trenton Lee Stewart. I am not the right person to ask for any kind of objective review here. But I’m glad it’s part of the permanent collection: Voted one of De’s Most Likely Books to Drag Up to a Treehouse, If She Had One. This is also a Lay on Your Stomach and Kick

Dude, misnomer. I was hoping for a sign that said, “Come with Folgers…leave with Yergacheffe.” But no deal. The Coffee Exchange is not a proper coffee shop. For one thing, the big-screen TVs run Fox News Network; for another, the radio station plays hard-rock oldies via The Eagle. Had I asked for soy milk, the

(This one’s much shorter than the others. Two reasons: not much happened, and I didn’t write anything down. Carry the portable notebook. Carry the portable notebook.) Got up, went swi– Packed, loaded, paid, and went back to the Jackalope. (Which, now that I check, I realize I hadn’t mentioned before. Here’s the link.) Which is

What’s the difference between a muffin and a cupcake? It is just frosting vs. mix-ins?

Lei’d to Rest may be launching on Monday. Fingers crossed!

Adding Devil’s Panties and Beaver & Steve to the sidebar. I have read the entire run of Devil’s Panties now; on the other hand, I was almost instantly won over by the following line: “Steve! How many times do I have to tell you not to create paradoxes?” There you go.

Why do I think this is so funny? The song already cracks me up, and the video is even funnier. Nine Inch Nails: Only …But then, I think Kafka is funny, and I usually giggle all the way through “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”

Itinerary: downtown Santa Fe. Revisit St. Francis Cathedral Basilica. Check.Locate and visit Georgia O’Keefe museum. Check.Don’t get lost. Check. The St. Francis Cathedral Basilica, now, there’s a church. Huge, of course, with brightly-painted columns in the interior and an enormous baptismal font (ironic, since Catholics usually get baptized at birth and don’t do the full