Today, I will embark on a road trip to visit seven friends in seven days. (Doesn’t that sound like the name of a boring memoir? Seven Friends in Seven Days: How I Saw Some Buddies and Discovered a Life Worth Living.) I will pass through 7 states and cover roughly 1,547 miles. Will I discover myself on [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Bonnie’
October 23, 2009
get up, stand up
This week I attended the ne plus ultra of librarianship on the local level: the Pennsylvania Library Association Conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I got to:
a) Meet, hug and fawn over my favorite author Jennifer Weiner (I asked her to inscribe my book, “To Bonnie, my best friend”)
b) Win an iPod, even though I told the [...]
September 17, 2009
1,001 Dalmatians-err, holds on Dan Brown’s new novel
At the time of this writing, there are 1,001 holds on Dan Brown’s new book, the Lost Symbol. The second book with the most holds (592) is Swimsuit, by James Patterson. Patterson’s book Alex Cross’s Trial comes in third, with 581 holds.
Call me wildly judgemental, but could someone please tell me why people love these [...]
August 7, 2009
Our spirituality book club has been reincarnated and born again
At our last meeting, we decided to change the Pathfinders Spirituality Book Club schedule to a series format—we will meet in September, October and November, rather than every other month. We also voted on the titles to read next. And so, our Fall 2009 schedule is:
September 9: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon [...]
July 21, 2009
Believe the hype
I hope I’m not the one to break the news to you of the memoirist Frank McCourt’s passing on Sunday. McCourt left us with three unforgettable full-length books: Angela’s Ashes, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award; ‘Tis and Teacher Man. [...]
July 2, 2009
To charm a worm
This past Saturday the United Kingdom hosted its 30th anniversary World Worm Charming Championships. Worm charming is a sport in which competitors use various methods to “charm” worms from their loamy abodes with methods including but not limited to: tap dancing, singing, stomping, and the usage of various contraptions that create vibrations on the 3×3 [...]
May 29, 2009
Welcome to the ‘Burgh presidents, officials, dignitaries n’at!
Welcome to the ‘Burgh yinz dignitaries n’at! Pittsburgh will soon have the honor of playing host to the world’s most powerful leaders on September 24th and 25th!
According to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Pittsburgh was selected because it’s a great example of a region that has reinvented itself. “It’s an area that has seen [...]
April 27, 2009
Magical Fruit
If ever a food were magical, it would be the beloved bean. I grew up eating refried beans almost every day and have never gotten sick of them.
Did you know that beans are actually seeds? According to the gorgeous, fun-fact-filled book 100 Health-Boosting Foods: Facts and Recipes for Super Health, not only are beans [...]
April 9, 2009
Hair today, gone tomorrow
We wash it, dye it, shave it, curl it, iron it, mousse it, clean it out of the sink, tousle it, spike it, banana clip it, lose it, relax it, barrette it, berate it, comb it, bleach it, deep condition it, spray it, cut it, add extensions to it, braid it, crimp it, tease it, [...]
March 24, 2009
Welcome to the World!, or, How to Experience Exotic Lands for Free
I love travelling to new places—not so much to sightsee, but to sociologically deconstruct how other people live. It’s fun to find out what strange (to me) things people do and then attempt to discover why it’s done that way. It’s also a good way to analyze why I do weird things.
Travelling is very expensive, and the [...]
