Wake Up Call At The Hotel Rastafarian Simone Monday, August 31, 2009 Music playing from speakers in room: "Get up, Stand up! Stand up for your rights! Get up, St… Read more
Adventures of The Good Lil' Consumer Simone Sunday, August 30, 2009 It's time for another installment of The Good Lil' Consumer! Let's tune in and see wha… Read more
Fab Vocab Simone Friday, August 28, 2009 Have you ever used any of these terms in conversation? highball minx fracus beanbag … Read more
Tubes And Transistors Simone Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Vacuum tubes and transistors. On my mind tonight. They were made by the thousands, back when compu… Read more
Random Acts Of Canineness Simone Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Galloping horses couldn't have surprised us more. In one wooosh the canine had bounded across t… Read more
Cheeses Of My Life Simone Friday, August 14, 2009 I have tasted the cheese, er cheeses, of my life –a P’tit Basque and Prince De Claverolle. Both che… Read more
Hobo In The Sun Simone Friday, August 07, 2009 It's feast or famine. Going from no Kerouac, to total Kerouac immersion. I am reading both On t… Read more
Strip Tease Simone Wednesday, August 05, 2009 Declutter. The removal of unwanted objects. The expulsion of the riff-raff from one's home. Get… Read more
Simone Sunday, August 02, 2009 My kids are thousands of feet above the earth. It gives me the willies. I don't like to picture… Read more
Beatnik Cave Simone Saturday, August 01, 2009 No, it wasn't. O'Malley's in Weston is good as pubs go, but it's not a beatnik cave… Read more
Spocktober! The month has almost got away from me! I can't believe I am just now posting about it. It's not logical, captai… Keep reading
How I Came To Be Crowned Chili Queen It started with that trip through the bean aisle of Hyvee, when I picked up two 30 oz. cans of chili beans and said, &q… Keep reading
The Physics Of A Falling Coffee Cup On Tuesday this incredible thing happened at work. I didn't think such a thing was possible. The laws of falling bo… Keep reading
Live-Blogging the Blizzard of 2011 - LATE NIGHT UPDATE 1:22 am: Trying to write, but can't keep eyes open. Must make long journey to bed. The snow has stopped. Everyone … Keep reading
No Jellybeans On Easter. I couldn't find our Easter baskets. They're either in the garage, buried under a pile of boxes and probably all… Keep reading