Now that I work at an academic publisher, I sometimes have the opportunity to get my hands on books I might otherwise not know about. My most recent read, Taverns and Drinking in Early America, falls squarely in that category….

Sometimes, I don’t know what to make of what goes on in this crazy world of ours. Things just keep heading in the wrong direction. This has nothing to do with the economy or pig flu or anything like that….

I don’t know how I ended up as an eavesdropper. Maybe growing up with seven older siblings who liked to keep secrets from me had something to do with it. Some of my earliest memories come from receiving bribes to…

I feel like I have saved the youth of Hanover single-handedly. All it took was a trip to the library. Everything started when I read an item in the newspaper. The library wanted to expand their collection and put out…

OK, the last time I did one of these updates, I expressed disappointment that the re-release of “Reckoning” would be paired with a disc from the Dublin rehearsals prior to the Accelerate release. A few people pointed out the fallacy…

I would like to say that the crushing disappointment of the end of Scrubs as we know it has kept me from blogging for a week, but, in reality, I have just been lazy. So what better to get me…