4 Dec 2011

My Big Fat Blog: How I’m Going to Downsize My Blog Posts & How You’re Going to Help

You know what thing they say about dogs looking like their owners?

Well, I’m starting to suspect the same thing goes for blogs and their owners.

You see, my blog and I have a lot in common.

My blog has been described as “long-winded,” “good crazy” and “deranged.”

Well, as chance may have it, [...]

27 Nov 2011

What I’ve Been Doing While I Haven’t Been Here (Because I Know You Were All Dying to Know)

Maybe you’ve noticed it’s been a few weeks since my last blog post.

Or, maybe, you haven’t. Because, you know, it’s entirely possible you have things to do that don’t involve holding a candlelight vigil by your laptop waiting for my next blog post to show up on your computer screen. Although I can’t [...]

25 Aug 2011

By Any Other Name: Why I Call Myself A Writer

Warning: This post contains rants about blogging and travel blogging and writing and other topics which I understand may be of little interest to many of my lovely friends and readers out there. I will warn you when we get to that point.

Until then, I’d like to share with you a little story [...]

10 Jul 2011

My 7 Links (because all the cool kids are doing it)

  If you’re a regular reader to my blog, you may be a bit alarmed. After all, this is my second blog post in a week. And I posted two blog posts last week. (So, uh, where is my medal, I’d like to know?)

It’s not really like me to update my blog twice every [...]

7 Jul 2011

Top 5 Reasons I’m Proud to Be an American

I’ll admit I haven’t always been the best American.

On my first trip abroad, to London, I spurned t-shirts and shorts in favor of skirts and scarves in an attempt to look British. I started saying “biscuits” instead of “cookies” and “trousers” instead of “pants” and “dodgy” instead of, umm, whatever it is that [...]