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- Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the…
- I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.
- A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.
- Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
- I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.
- The one thing I've discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions…
- On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all…
- Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.
- I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the…
- I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how…
- Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch,…
- 'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the…
- I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training…
- I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because…
- I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved…
- I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of…
- I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors sign something else? A flyer, perhaps?…
- I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to…
- I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that…
- I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel…
- It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by…
- Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head,…
- There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy…
- When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance…
- The semiology and phenomenology of hashtaggery intrigues me. From what I understand, it all began very simply: on Twitter, hashtags - those little checkerboard marks…
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