Hey! You! If you entered THE GREAT EXPERIMENT for November send me your links. I'll post 'em up so y'all can read everyone's entries and vote over the entire holiday weekend. Plenty of time, yeah? 175 big ones are at stake on this go 'round. Just...

Dear Violet Ten months. That's how old you are today. I'm so happy I've written these monthly retrospectives because just now I went back and read over them and realized how much we forget, how many cherished details blur with the passage of time. ...

If you haven't yet seen the People of Walmart website I highly recommend it. Warning, once you get in there it's tough to break away it's just such a magnificent display of humanity. I tell you this early in this post so the latter part of the post...

I've had pretty bad acne lately. Lately, as in, the past ten years. Never a zit in junior high or high school but round about age twenty they attacked with a vengeance. And when they attack I can't help but defend myself. No, not so much defend...