Julie Pippert is sponsoring an essay contests for writers who are mothers (although I think that anyone who has loved and nurtured a child might want to take a crack at this). Just follow the link.
Monthly Archives: July 2008
I will admit to a grudging like that has grown into a genuine fondness for the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan film, You’ve Got Mail. I am a sucker, it seems, for Tom Hanks (some day I will explain that for the benefit of Mad) and for people who fall in love through the beauty of an exchange of words.
The film is actually a remake of an old Jimmy Stewart romantic comedy, The Shop Around the Corner from 1940 where two employees of a gift shop actively despise one another while unknowingly corresponding as anonymous pen pals. The Meg Ryan character in You’ve Got Mail owns a children’s bookshop called The Shop Around the Corner and she and the Hanks character meet and fall in love exchanging email under pseudonyms.
You might wonder why I bring this up. Read Full Article
Crossed the border without incident Thursday afternoon and spent the night in downtown Regina with intentions to get to bed early and make the last leg of the journey home as early in the morning as possible.
Regina is unremarkable. A big enough city whose middle has been thoroughly soaked in the urine of the homeless and definitely not a place we are considering as the ultimate in root planting for ourselves. In fact aside from Lice Widow, Rob’s next younger sister, the family has mostly endeavored to escape this place. Read Full Article
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