The BookFetish Blog

It’s a Renaissance, or Eating the World My friend Lisa and I both read Jen Lancaster’s My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict’s Attempt to Discover if Not Being a Dumb-Ass Is the New Black, or, A Culture-Up Manifesto. While we both laughed out loud at reading the book, Lisa decided she needed to undergo […]

Driving home from the movies tonight, trying to avoid the abysmal loss Georgia Tech seemed destined to receive in the Georgia-Georgia Tech game,  I started thinking about the albums I love that aren’t U2. Because if you know me, you know that I’m a huge U2 fan and that any top ten list would be […]

I’ve read that Frank Zappa said “Music is the only religion that delivers.”  I’ve often said, only half-jokingly, that if I could get the feeling in church that I get from some music, I’d never miss a Sunday.Music is the balm for my soul. There are songs that I hear, and I react viscerally, from […]

I got some news this week that put me in a bit of a funk.  Thankfully, nothing serious, and most certainly a first world problem. But still, it caused me a bit of angst.  I’ll get to that but you first need the back story. Several years ago, I was part of The Crew, a group of […]

A few weeks ago, I wrote about working with a professional organizer.  Let me tell you, it is some of the best money I’ve ever spent. I feel so unburdened now, so liberated.  I feel in control of my environment. I feel like I can maintain this. In fact, I have.  So let me tell […]