1. Fake bacon bits 2. Long, warm conversations with the Palinode 3. Finally hitting over 25,000 words in NaNoWriMo! 4. When we come together to create a fabulous MamaPop Roundtable video 5. Objects that look like they have...

"Five Star Friday's Edition #80": This week's roundup of good weblog reading is brought to you by a health crisis, loose ends, Top Chef Las Vegas, a bad movie, Oprah and porn, music, mannequins, luck, a trip to Vermont, muppets, Japanese...

1. Making sales on my first shift inside the actual store 2. Fudge sundaes 3. Smart birds 4. Take-out comfort food 5. Seeing a familiar object again for the first time Wage a battle against embitterment and take part in Grace in...

"Sofía Vergara Makes a Rape Joke On The View, Crickets Ensue": Sofía Vergara, 37, was on ABC's The View yesterday morning to talk about her job with the show Modern Family and ended up further entrenching my belief that The View and its guests...

1. The moon 2. Mozza burgers from A&W 3. That the Palinode came home to hang out with me at lunch 4. Waterproof mascara, because it keeps my greasy eyelashes from marking up the lenses of my glasses 5. When the sadness if...