The Way the Music Died
She’s happily listening to “American Girl.” And none of us ever will again.Photo credits: Pyxurz I’ve always had an inexplicable aversion to Chianti. If someone were to just fill up my glass without my...
View ArticleDon’t Know Much About History
History Book I was inspired to get after watching Last of the Mohicans and not knowing who the bad guys were. I just returned from a long weekend in the Chicago suburbs to celebrate my cousin’s high...
View ArticleHow to Seem Super Smart
In sixth grade, I won the class spelling bee because my esteemed rival tossed a “c” at the beginning of the word “kindergarten.” My victory proved once and for all that I was the smartest kid in the...
View ArticleModern Tourism
Visiting Paul Revere’s house in Boston When I was a kid, my parents took me on a week-long road trip from Chicago to Boston. It was disguised as a learning experience, but I’m pretty sure my dad just...
View ArticleThe Name Game
The other day I came across an experience I knew I might have only once in a lifetime – I ran into someone under the age of 20 named Tiffany. All of us 80s babies know that we have...
View ArticleHow Do I Friend Thee? Let Me Count the Ways…
In second grade, our class had a new student named Brooke. Brooke had just moved into our little Midwestern suburb from a magical faraway land called Texas. Instantly, she was a shiny new object that...
View ArticleSocial Media Could’ve Saved…
The election is finally over and I’ve already cast my vote for the winner of this season’s The Bachelor, so I figured all my major decisions were behind me for a while. Hasbro, however, has decided to...
View ArticleBetter Never Than Early
I recently discovered this pretty nifty little device called an iPhone – it’s kind of like an iPod but you can make calls on it and apparently it’s all the rage. I decided I should probably buy one and...
View ArticleOperation… and Other Games that Make Us Better
I love pasta. It’s a deep love, a passionate love, a two syllable lo-ove. And sometimes you do crazy things for love. So the other night when I was making a little rotini and one fell...
View ArticlePopcorn and Pinot
People love to talk about movies – the talent, the writing, the singing skills of what’s-her-name. They will tweet it, blog it, and small-talk it over drinks. But ask someone to tell you their favorite...
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