They came yesterday.   Two boxes of books bearing that dangerous, sexy cover with my name at the bottom.  I’d been sitting at the dining room table, trying to finish Bitten to Death.  The scene was so much on my mind I knew I couldn’t break from it for long.   But for just a minute I [...]

Since Once Bitten, Twice Shy is coming out soon, I’ve done a couple of interviews.  My ultimate take–I think I should’ve practiced first.  A lot.  Too easy to say one thing when you mean another.  Then you wonder how it’ll turn out in print.  Who you’ll accidentally offend when you were totally trying to make [...]

We got tee-peed last night.  Never heard of it?  Well, it’s a Midwestern phenomenon.  (Hey, let me claim it, will ya?  Otherwise all we’ve got is corn and Abraham Lincoln.)  For those of you outside the know (like my mom before she moved here), tee-peeing is the art of draping your friends’ yards in toilet paper.  [...]

Yeah, I get ‘em.  Not like I used to though, which is why I was driven to share this with you.  I suffered for years thinking there was nothing anyone could do for me, that I had to lose entire days out of my life, laying in darkened rooms, moaning into the dampened cloth over my [...]

Watched two of the most different movies you could possibly view one after another last night.  The 40-Year-Old Virgin followed by Lucky Number Slevin.  (Totally inappropriate for kids, in case you were wondering.)  I really liked them both, the first because Steve Carell is just hilarious, which got me past some of the grosser moments.  Although [...]