by Mir | Jan 4, 2008 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Attention Young Master Monkeypants: Today is your birthday. You are eight whole years old! That is—as your sister solemnly informed you a month or so back—the beginning of being a tween. From there you’ll become a teenager, and from there it’s...
by Mir | Jan 2, 2008 | The Year of Living Changerously
After 15 hours in the car today (totally uneventful, really, other than the MIND NUMBING BORINGNESS and the fact that I got all loopy on diet coke and started misreading signs all over the place, including INSISTING that there had been a billboard advertising SEXY...
by Mir | Jan 1, 2008 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
Happy new year! I hope you had an awesome night of revelry for New Year’s Eve, preferably one that included a stupid hat. I did not have a stupid hat, but fortunately my hair is stupid enough without one. We partied like it was 2008, though. Hooboy. We were in...
by Mir | Dec 31, 2007 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
We are in upstate New York, and after passing a lovely evening with friends we retired for the night. When I got up this morning and peeked outside, everything was covered with a horrible, fluffy white substance. Somewhere in the back of my mind there is a vague sense...
by Mir | Dec 30, 2007 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Ottomatic For the People
Yesterday was a whirlwind of travel, putting us at one friend’s house for the afternoon, then shuffling off to another friend’s house for the night. I guess Otto hadn’t been entirely clear with this group of pals as to when we’d be where, so...
