I text her a quick “Hey.” DAY FIVE 6 a.m. The little assholes are at it early upstairs. I go to my terrace to smoke and see the fix-up girl, Tessa, wrote back. I like that she’s friends with my sister. My sisters are my best friends. I don’t have a lot of other ...
(namely whiskey and flavored fortified wine). By 1971, his health had been affected by alcoholism and liver damage and doctors advised him to stop touring. Following a hiatus, he resumed touring with the group in December 1971 but was forced to retire from touring altogether in June 1972. ...
I wrote the first one when we'd just adopted Sadie—my husband was healing from a major accident, I was recovering from whatever I was recovering from, our wonderful old dog Eli had died a few months before (Kitty was in deep mourning--she wouldn't sleep in our room, and refused to ...
Happily sipping her whiskey, compiling crossword puzzles, and swimming in the Thames. It’s this last activity that sparked Judith’s newest pursuit – murder investigation, as she nearly witnessed the murder of her neighbor….An event that leads Judith into not only investigating the crime but...
Steve Gazibara, founder of the country music and lifestyle website Whiskey Riff, said of McLean's attempt at country: "My puppy recently ate three socks and puked them all out like a machine in succession. The sounds of those socks coming back out are how I would describe this song."...
Other artists have struggled with the National Anthem on large MLB stages, too:Luke Bryanfamously wrote the lyrics on his hand prior to his 2012 performance and received tremendous criticism. Historically, many artists have chosen to pre-record the National Anthem due to the pressure of the momen...
Umberto Eco once wrote of Casablanca that it was as if all the clichés got together and staged a joyous reunion. That statement has been applied to Harry Potter and is also true of this book, the first in a trilogy, which is sort of the platonic ideal of what an epic fantasy can and...
Here’s a bit she wrote in her meditation on “purpose”: As we wear the carpets of our lives threadbare with constant pacing, we may miss out on the miracle appointed for that day. Sometimes God has appointed us to be the ones calling others back. He is constantly arranging His people...
Other artists have struggled with the National Anthem on large MLB stages, too:Luke Bryanfamously wrote the lyrics on his hand prior to his 2012 performance and received tremendous criticism. Historically, many artists have chosen to pre-record the National Anthem due to the pressure of the momen...
“This is a guy who wrote his way out of his circumstances from the get-go,” Miranda told the New York Times in February 2015. “That is part and parcel with the hip-hop narrative: writing your way out of your circumstances.”59 The use of records as props and as...