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So You Think You Can Dance Update

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_TFSBqSfGM This season of So You Think You Can Dance continues to be a real pleasure to watch. This week we were down to the top ten dancers, and without a doubt, they’re my favorite top…

What Am I to do With All This Squash?!

I love yellow summer squash – in moderation.  It seems however, that a squash plant is a plant that keeps on giving and giving and giving.  Then you have to figure out what to do with…

The Beautiful Minds of Heroes

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJwfhm9Tjck I remember the moment I fell in love for the first time.  He was tall and slim, with piercing grey eyes and a rather hawkish profile.  He was apt to get lost in his work…

More Music

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eujMNVdpCTU To follow up on my entry about Regina Spektor, here is another blog about Musicians I’m Crazy About. This installment: Brandi Carlile. You may recognize her song The Story from the GM commercials last summer…

RWA 2009 National Conference Begins Wednesday

This year Publisher Lynn Spencer and I will be there.  If you will be too, here’s our open invitation: Please  join Lynn, me and other AAR readers in the bar at the conclusion of the Wednesday,…

My Problem With Brownies

Sundays chez moi are reserved for three things: Laundry, housekeeping, and cooking.  I get these three things done and it will last me a week or more; I don’t, and I start scrambling around Wednesday.  So…

Carrot Cup Cakes

At one of the places I work, all of the ladies are great cooks. Often when I go into work, there will be muffins or banana bread or lemon cake or brownies waiting on the counter…

Speaking of Audiobooks: Listening to those Sex Scenes

I can’t think of a better companion for walking on a treadmill than a good romance audiobook to help fight off the sheer boredom of it all.  Before discovering audiobooks, I’d tried music, TV, movies, and…

Things I Don't Want To Do

Out of respect for a co-worker, I had to do something yesterday that I didn’t want to do.  No one does.  Because of the nature of the event, going was the right thing to do and…