Sunday with Eoin Colfer and Artemis Fowl

Powell’s had Eoin Colfer, the author of the Artemis Fowl series, in town and we went to see him at the very cool Bagdad Theatre. He is so Irish and SO funny. Some of his stories though — yeesh! They were really, really, really, really gross. Really. In a non-subtle kind of way. I almost …

Thoreau and My Quest for New Shoes

When Barrett and I started sorting through our things to move to Portland from Madison, I thought after we moved that I would start to live a Thoreau-like existence of simplicity. Sure, we were moving to the city, not the country, but what with all of the trees around, what difference would that tiny detail …