reverie

My friend Jeremy Graham has a blues album out! Check it Jeremy Graham Blues - For The Love . It's so exciting to see friends making dreams come true! :) Jeremy plays regularly at the Fusion Cafe where I used to cook on Sunday nights. On nights I was cooking & Jeremy was playing, I always made red beans & rice, sausage, and biscuits--seemed like blues-y kind of food to me. I really enjoyed those nights, so this album definitely brings up some fond memories. I hope you'll give it a go!

I love books. Those of you who know me well may be puzzled by that statement as I am by no means an avid reader. But I like actual physical books. I like the pages, underlining passages that strike or inspire me, the scent, pressing flowers between the pages, and rediscovering old photos or scraps of paper used as bookmarks. So as you might imagine, I was by no means an early adopter when the Kindle hit the scene. (For all intents and purposes, the Kindle is the only e-reader that exists or needs to exist in my world.) Sure, the e-ink is impressive, and the ability to carry a gazillion books without lugging around a giant suitcase is convenient. It's just not the same though, and a Kindle library is by no means as lovely as a shelf-full of books. But at some point it struck me how very Star Trek this device is. I remember growing up and watching The Next Generation, and they had these small little tablets that they read books or plays on. I always thought it was cool and c...

It's been over 7 months since I last felt compelled to write here. I even missed my first day of February post this year because even after significant consideration, I just didn't feel like I really had anything to say. That changes now because the truth is I have things to say, but my words are being wasted on forms of "communication" that I am coming to loathe. Perhaps I am becoming a bit of a curmudgeon in my old age, I did turn 30 yesterday after all, but the Communications major in me and even more so the human being in me has grown displeased and impatient with the convenient, impersonal, and thoughtless ways in which we interact with each other. This is not an indictment of any of you specifically, but a criticism of myself and society as a whole. We take to Facebook and text messaging to disseminate information in the exact same manner to our loved ones as people we haven't talked to since high school. Now I absolutely believe that texting has a plac...