December Madness We decided to clean out our garage on Saturday morning.  Well, that’s not exactly true – we were going to have a yard sale, sort of on a whim because our neighbor was supposed to have one and we figured we’d take advant...

Did you see the Academy Awards earlier this year?  (I know, that was forever ago wasn’t it?)  Do you remember when Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won the Academy Award for Best Song for the song “Falling Slowly” from a tiny movie ca...

For the first time ever I headed out for a bit of early Black Friday shopping.  I needed a new camera because like an idiot I put my camera down on a shelf in a bathroom stall (telling myself when I put it there that I should put it in my backpa...