From the monthly archives:

August 2011

Powerless

by Beth Dunn on 28 August 2011

The winds of Irene continue to blow hard this afternoon, and the forecast is for several more hours of tropical storm force winds to come. We’ve had remarkably little rain from this storm, since the track Irene followed brought the eye of the storm much further westward than had been originally expected. In fact, if you [...]

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Keep believing, keep pretending

by Beth Dunn on 23 August 2011

When I was a kid, I loved exactly three TV shows. M*A*S*H, The Carol Burnett Show, and The Muppets. I wanted to love Soap, too, but my mom wouldn’t let me stay up that late. M*A*S*H I was so obsessive over M*A*S*H, I used to keep a huge, sprawling, old-fashioned scrapbook of it for years, [...]

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Argleton and Ada Come Calling

by Beth Dunn on 14 August 2011

Seriously, is everything that comes to my house with British postage on it awesome? Because it is certainly looking that way. Some time in the distant past (two years ago? three?) I chipped in a little of my ready cash to support an intriguing, London-based Kickstarter project that caught my eye called Argleton: A Story [...]

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Season envy

by Beth Dunn on 7 August 2011

I do so wish it were fall. I know that’s not a popular thing to say. I know that summer is when things grow and thrive and flowers bloom and people are happy and the living is easy and fish are jumping and blah blah blee bloo. And I know that fall is when leaves [...]

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