Maybe the dream of writing full-time was a fool’s game, and one that would only serve to make me feel bad when it didn’t happen, just like all of my crap vacations. So I stopped looking on Realtor and Zillow, resigning myself to spending probably another five to ten years in the...
I felt the time was appropriate to go back and give the anime a rewatch. In the past, I’ve found that returning to an anime and examining it with an eye on themes, as well as creative intention, allowed me to gain new perspective on works I previously disliked or displayed ambivalence...
Big brows.My teenage daughter has been encouraging me to grow out my eyebrows. Oh, it’s happening. At an unprecedented rate. I pray ungroomed brows will be back. In case you didn’t know, when you’re about to turn 49, you start to look like Andy Rooney in that area. (RIP.) S...
Journal-keeping seems to be a genetic predisposition for me. Women in my family have been talking to themselves for more than 150 years, beginning with my great grandmother’s diary in 1862. These four generations of women documented the inane but essential details of daily life. They recorded...
Thankfully, Tokyo has one of the world’s most efficient metro subway systems crisscrossing the city, making it easy to get around Tokyo. Tokyo has an incredible 13 subway lines! Pin Me stepping out of one of the exits at Shinjuku Station ...
The main tourist strip is Jalan Petaling, where vendors sell all the usual tourist souvenirs and t-shirts. While it may seem like just a tourist trap, there are plenty of street food vendors here that have been serving up delicious street food, snacks, and drinks for generations. Jalan Peta...
And there’s no way I could possibly forget the four distinct opportunities when I was able to do my best Rob Gordon impression and sell our store’s one copy of The Beta Band’s The Three E.P.’s, which every time went just like this: Me to a co-worker: I will now sell our ...
Ampeater Music is a website devoted to bridging the gap between unsigned (or just plain underexposed) artists and music lovers everywhere. Every day we feature a different artist on what we call The Ampeater Review. Each fea
“I don’t need a boy to pay attention to me, I pay attention to myself” – Tina Belcher I am still in the process of learning how to make new friends. I don’t make friends easily. I am friendly with people, and make acquaintances well, but to go from someone I know to a ...
I went to our William Sonoma store a week before Bakerella was arriving to see if I could get the book and then just bring my receipt with me and they wouldn’t sell the book until the day of the event. I then asked them to verify if I had to purchase the book from William ...