(Un)Expectations

Last Friday, July 1st, would have been Princess Diana’s 50th birthday. I’ve written before about my minor obsession with royalty, particularly British royalty, but of course Diana remains a topic of fascination for a lot of people. It seems strange to me that a woman who lived such a large (and arguably full, if flawed) [...]

You Like Me, You Really Like Me!

I’m meeting my pen pal today. In fact, by the time this scheduled post has published, I will have probably already met her. And I’ll know whether or not I was nervous for nothing. Through my job, I found out about this pen pal program at one of the local schools. The middle school students [...]

Quite Contrary

I didn’t watch the Super Bowl this weekend. I’ve also never watched American Idol or read The Da Vinci Code. I didn’t have any interest in the Super Bowl, as I’m not really a fan of football. But I resist American Idol and Dan Brown precisely because so many other people do not. Ordinarily, I’d [...]