Home. What does that word mean to you? Comfort, safety, love? A roof over your head? The place where you can hang your hat? The place where, when you go there, they have to take you in (thank you, Robert Frost)? Home for me is many places. I have a …
Did you know that there are certain people on this planet who are perfect and flawless? If you would just try hard enough, you could be perfect and flawless, too. Don’t believe me? Hair, makeup, diets, gyms, clothes, surgery… all of these things can help you achieve flawless perfection. Or …
Picture it: A beautiful, sunny morning. Not too warm yet. Perfect weather to spend an hour walking miles on the canal path. Which is just what I did. Laced up my sneakers, turned up the music, and hit the pavement. And everything was lovely. Until that thing happened. That thing …
All right, people, we’ve got stuff to accomplish today! First up, it’s time to announce the winner of the first-ever BFD giveaway! Using a total random generator I found on the internet (the modern-day equivalent of writing all your names on a piece of paper and sticking them in a …
So there I was, sitting around the pool with my family on a beautiful afternoon, getting ready to enjoy some Memorial Day picnic food, when my phone rang. It was a local reporter, who wanted to interview me. On the television. In about an hour. What?! But I’m wearing a …
Welcome to the first ever BFD giveaway! At the end of the post, you’ll find instructions on how to win some great products. But first you have to sit through a little story (unless, of course, you just scroll right down to the bottom). Not the giveaway. Brings back memories …
I think we can all agree that sometimes the world feels pretty bonkers. Whether it’s something huge and overwhelming like a natural disaster (donate, donate, donate!), or something small but intensely personal like a rejection (thanks, literary magazines!), it’s easy to get overwhelmed. So today, I thought we’d talk a …
Over the weekend, I was able to get down to Penn Yan and see how my hometown is fairing since the flash flooding last week. Thanks to the incredible hard work of so many people, a lot of the clean-up is nearing completion, and the rebuilding has begun. It’s going …
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this very important announcement. Earlier this week, torrential rains caused massive flooding in my hometown of Penn Yan, New York. While things have been damaged and destroyed, no one was injured and no lives were lost, and the spirit of the amazing …
Have you ever had one of those moments where the stars seemed to align, everything falls into place, and the world makes perfect sense? I had one of those moments yesterday. I’ve had this idea gnawing at the back of my head for awhile, about a change I’ve been thinking …
