“The process of engaging your celebrity is not unlike being a photographer at the Sears portrait studio. You just need a different version of a squeaky toy so their eyes follow you and they smile occasionally.” Jancee Dunn grew up in suburban Jersey, with two little sisters, a former Southern beauty queen for a mother and a JC Penney exec for a father. She somehow stumbled into a job writing for Rolling Stone, and ended up traveling around the world as she interviewed celebrity after celebrity. […]
Explosions are better in motion.
Normally, I’m not into guys like Jamie Hyneman, but I’m sure falling for him in this cover photo. Here’s my review.
In Which I Address My Intellectual Vulgarity
As someone who has been reading romance novels virtually non-stop for two years, I have a lot of feelings on the subject. As a successful writer in the genre, Maya Rodale has feelings and actual research on the subject. I purchased her thesis, Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained, because I wanted to understand why this mass market genre is so consistently derided not only by readers, but also seemingly by the book industry as well. Many people read these books […]
Diet book lovers, unite
I am a sucker for diet books; if you struggle with your weight at all, you will understand when I say, the promise of losing weight is really the promise of a better life. Of course it
Time to Put On Your Big Girl Pants
Full disclosure: I’m very lucky. I’m third generation college educated. I have a job that I love at a successful company and I’m good at what I do. Yet, I often feel like I am failing. To continue reading, please follow along to my blog!
On Curveballs, Statistics, and the Good Face
Golden sunlight on a baseball field carved out of pristine Iowa farmland. A row of stands where immaculately dressed spectators wave little banners. Beer out of a paper cup, a nickel a pop. And young men, nine to a side, playing a game that’s as entrenched in the heart of pastoral America as the pasture itself. Only, this Norman Rockwell painting hides the full truth, because among the spectators is a man working for a major league baseball team. He’ll drive ten thousand miles this […]