Greetings from Philadelphia, home of the founding of humidity, the cheesesteak, and where, as contrasted against the wee state to the south, everything is named after Ben Franklin instead of DuPont. I'll be on the road for the next couple of weeks, and will try to post some brief dispatches.
I was pleased as all-natural,...
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Sometime in August, just when you'll begin to realize summer is almost over and the alternating panic and melancholy will start to set in, Crocheted Gifts will hit shelves to remind you that fall ain't so bad after all.
The designs in this book are as lovely and clever as the designers who made them,...
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You know about statistics, right? About how to judge whether the news you're hearing or reading is actually reflecting the numbers behind it? Because you really, really should. (This post is inspired by the stats quoted at the end of this AdAge piece about the recent KFC grilled-chicken promotion...
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It took me a long time to write yesterday's book review—partly because it was my first from an advance copy, partly because I didn't like the book, and partly because I wasn't sure how much my dislike of it was due to the book itself and how much was due to the type of...
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A couple of months ago, Penguin Canada put out a call for bloggers interested in receiving advance copies of upcoming releases. I signed up and a couple of weeks ago received my first two review copies. I might not get through one, but here's what I think about the other.
The Girl Next Door is...
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Twenty years ago today in the suburbs of Albany, NY, wearing a white frilly dress purchased from the store where one must purchase such things in Brooklyn, NY, I sang in public for the last time. As it was quite literally on the occasion of an honest-to-god rite of passage, nobody fell sick as...
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Before I first met Kristi Porter in person I had Zappos send a pair of shoes to her house for me. Shannon Okey and I were going to be staying with Kristi during the TNNA trade show in San Diego a few winters ago, and I'd been unable to find cream-coloured Converse sneakers here...
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For months there's been buzz about the book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. How unexpected! How au courant! How funny! I snatched up a copy as soon as I saw a sign for it in the window of my closest indie bookstore.
I'm thrilled the original Jane Austen book is in the public domain and...
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So the first four months of my yearlong amorphous adventure have passed and I thought I'd explore what I did with myself, what I'd planned to do with myself, what I'm doing now and what I might do next.
If you're unfamiliar with all this, I'll sum up: I quit my job at the end...
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