Sorry I'm Not From Around Here Section :: Page 2

• BLOG – Don’t get around much anymore

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 21, 2012

  

  Things weren’t always this way between us. When I first saw Lando in the summer of 2007, I knew we were meant to be together.

• BLOG – Baby nerds

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 9, 2012

  

  Getting parents together is a lot like holding a baby convention. We are nerds for our babies.

• BLOG – Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 19, 2012

  

  Basically, nobody understands anybody, not really. We’re all thrown together and expected to figure out what’s going on in somebody else’s head, just by the words that they employ. It isn’t until you really need to understand or be understood that you realize that words are paltry tools.

• BLOG – Christmas! Now with Sound Blaster!

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 20, 2011

  

  I can never apologize to my parents for all the household items I destroyed over the years. More importantly, I can’t really say how sorry I am for all the sassy looks, and even sassier words, with which I have presented them. And which, if I’m honest, I continue to present.

• BLOG – The apprentice

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 10, 2011

  

  Musings about my toddler’s role at the News office. And some gratuitous baby pictures.

• BLOG – Happy Halloween, everybody

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 24, 2011

  

  When I was a kid, Halloween was a holiday that could not make up its mind: there were ghost stories, which introduced us to the dark mystery, the tingling awe and fear of things unseen, the whisper of the possibility of life after death. There was also the jubilant promise of candy, one unbridled night [...]

• BLOG – Cider Town

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 5, 2011

  

  For your edification (or maybe just to kill some time) Anthony and I taste our two favorite ciders, and then tell you about them. All free of charge.

• BLOG – There’s everybody!

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 21, 2011

  

  A brief(ish) post on the latest in the Yellow Springs Reading Series.

• BLOG – Where is everybody?

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 31, 2011

  

  Come out of hiding, writers and the people who love writers! Come out and support your fellow dreamers and schemers, your fellow poets and storytellers.

• BLOG — One year

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 10, 2011

  

  This time last year, I didn’t know that, in a week, everything I knew about everything would turn out to be nonsense.