Raising Camelot

Cardinal to Crimson, or My New Team

in time for today's Game Day festivities, I've selected the unlucky recipient of my new college football allegiance. It's taken some very deliberate consideration and the swallowing of certain deep-seated prejudices, no doubt, but the determination to spur on my Razorbacks to a long-awaited ... View Post

Honey or Vinegar

in Confidential on 09/17/10

catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Or so the saying goes. I played eyewitness to someone else's "vinegar moment" today. And the response of the flies. After naptime this afternoon, I piled the boys in the car for a quick run to a local specialty retailer (which shall remain ... View Post

Ten Can Taco Soup

in Eat on 09/13/10

In order for me to be considered a "foodie," the world would probably have to experience some kind of major food-oriented cataclysm. Maybe something on par with that stupid Stallone film in which Taco Bell is the only restaurant to "survive the franchise wars." Whatever that means. Anyway, until ... View Post

Never Forget

in Confidential, Incite on 09/11/10

have my reservations about this post. I lost no friends or family, no one I knew personally. I've never even set foot in New York City — before 9/11 or since. I haven't seen Ground Zero or the Pentagon or the Pennsylvania field where United 93 went down. On paper, you'd be hard put to find anyone ... View Post

Ming-Ming Must Die

in Confidential on 09/07/10

too puny today to write a "real" post. Just when I thought I was in the clear from the sinus/cold/allergy/tuberculosis/plague that dominated my house last week and turned my kids into bitter, clingy, gun-toting monsters. I spent all last week cajoling them to buck up and stop being so crabby. Mean ... View Post