Don't Fear the Chicken!
A small but expanding group of Lawrence residents are taking the next step in growing our own food: we're raising chickens. Specifically, hens. And now the city is considering banning the practice.
I Heart Roundabouts
A valentine.
Oprah Winfrey Wants Your Sex
And, Ayelet Waldman is one creepy broad
<i>The Center of Everything:</i> Discussion
Time to hash out the actions and motivations of a few Kansans in Laura Moriarty's novel.
Discreet
Thanks Kay O'Connor!
Parades and Murder Convictions
A couple of off-the-cuff remarks on the events of St. Patrick's Day in Lawrence.
Burning Out. I. Gee, I've Got It All!
I didn't say any of this, though. Instead: "Oh, you know. Been busy." I hung up the phone feeling very tiny and stupid. A complete and total loser.
EBS Book Club: <i>The Center of Everything</i>
A book about a tough Kansas girl, and Lawrence represents. New feature: The EBS Book Club is taking it to the real world. Drink up, readers!
Discussion: <i>Death Comes for the Archbishop</i>
"...Father Latour was thinking how each of these men not only had a story, but seemed to have become his story."
More Eastside Haiku
Those who can, do. Those who can't, haiku.
Knifting Crow?
Hell no! But I can play nice.
Art Gone Bad
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
The Knifty Knitter is a Kmenace!
or, Who's Afraid of Debbie Bliss?
Next up: <i>Death Comes for the Archbishop</i>
Willa Cather rocks, in a place and time kind of way.
<i>Fortress of Solitude</i> Discussion
Wherein your moderator drops the ball.
My Week in Haiku
A glimpse into the lives of the Eastside vonHoltens, set to pedestrian form
<i>Fortress of Solitude</i>
Look at this: a bookworm majority!
EBS Book Club in Your Hands
For the next book, are we digging up dead mothers, stuffing cats into hot dog carts, creating superheroes, worshiping flipper boys, or selling real estate? It's your choice.
<i>The Sun Also Rises:</i> Discussion
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing."
EBS Book Club: Book 2
And now for a different kind of loneliness.
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