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About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 33,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see it. (That’s from an email that wordpress.com sent me. Cool, huh?) 2010. The year began in Oregon, as…

That, my dear friends, is a giant clump of mistletoe. I am afraid we have been attacked by the giant kissing giants. But the giant kissing giants are, of course, friendly giants so an attack from them  means that they will give you mistletoe. Maybe knock over a big tree as well. Today I went…

Once upon a time there were three children named Violet, Clause, and Sunny Baudelaire. They had terrible lives.There is a series of books written about them called “A Series of Unfortunate Events.” At the beginning of the first book their parents die. Things only got worse from there. At the end of the last book…

I was the first one to open a Christmas present this morning. My family watched with baited breath as I unwrapped it, and pulled a black sweater out of the box. It was covered with rhinestones and ribbon detailing and had obviously come from a thrift store. “Try it on, Emily,” they said. I tried…

I have these furry black boots with furry pom-poms that I got online for twenty bucks once and just love. People all the time ask me where I got them but it’s silly because I got them years ago and most of the winter boots on the market now are either ugly ugg-types or $40…

Ben picked up two eggs. He said, “If we were in a movie and you were a bad guy I would throw these at you.” I picked up two eggs. I said, “If we were not in a movie and you were in a good guy I would throw these at you.” Then I pretended…

I have a new layout, very similar to the old. But you will notice that the red shoes are now red rubber boots instead of converse. Someday I am going to get my own pair of red rubber boots. I don’t really want a pair of red converse, even though they look so awesome. Here’s…

Yeah. So I just got done taking the most terrible final exam in the history of terrible final exams. Of course it is true that I’ve only really taken one other final exam in my lifetime but this has to be somewhere up there and I am quite irked. For instance: The study guide was…

There is this house down the road that suddenly I am completely in love with. It is all boarded up and sad and looks like it just needs someone to love it. The land around it is beautiful and cold and mysterious. This is not the house but it is the same style, brick with…

The book was fascinating. It was called “Shame of the Nation,” about kids in inner-city schools. I was trying to finish it, trying so hard, but time was running out, and the book critique was due. I did not want to be late with an assignment again. The book critique that I spit out in…