Questions For 2012 Simone Saturday, December 31, 2011 With only hours to spare before the new year bustles its way in, I have some questions I'd like… Read more
December 30th Simone Friday, December 30, 2011 December 30th. The day has kind of a shifty quailty that I like. It barely belongs to 2011, but it&… Read more
Burl Protesters Disrupt Holiday Festivities Simone Saturday, December 10, 2011 Burl Ives and his alter ego, the Talking Snowman Peaksville, MD – A beloved holiday tradition t… Read more
This Juicer Is Lit I just found out this old juicer from my childhood contains uranium. What?? When I was a kid I thought of it as a prett… Keep reading
Halloween Trick From Aunt Myrtle I need to get on with my jack-o-lantern carving. Just one week before Halloween. I've always found digging out the… Keep reading
Simone's Rules for Snow Days We're up to our arses in snow and there's more on the way! I love the freedom of no school and no work, but in… Keep reading
My Happy Full Moon Supermoon Birthday Today is a special day in all the universe---my birthday!! And I'm getting the coolest most cosmic present ever. A… Keep reading
Jazz and Classical fight like mad dogs at Helzberg Hall This past Saturday was my first concert at Helzberg Hall in the Kauffman Center. I discovered there are three things I… Keep reading
How come their street got plowed and ours didn't? This is reminiscent of the winter of 2011, when I wrote a tongue-in-cheek gripe about the plows forgetting us that got… Keep reading