an ode to Gmail (or maybe just Gchat?)

One of the very first things I ever wrote on this blog was a public appeal for a Gmail invite, which I subsequently got (thanks to one of my random Internet groupies). Ever since, my Gmail account has become my favorite and default webmail platform, and I love it. Recently, I also began trying out …

I couldn’t make this stuff up.

Ever on the lookout for the truly insane in this world, I was delighted to hear yesterday about some, um, unconventional anglers in Mississippi who catch catfish by hand. Apparently, the practice is fairly widespread — Missouri just made it legal, as have ten other states — throughout the south, although word of this first …

finally, I get some props from the Wii

So, a Wii came into my life several weeks ago, along with the Wii Fit board/game(?)/thingy. When you get started with Wii Fit, it puts you through some balance tests, weighs you, calculates your BMI, and then gives you your “Wii Fit Age.” Mine was a very depressing 41 or 43, I think? Definitely in …

weird?

Is it weird that my favorite “Christmas” song (to be completely politically correct, I suppose I should instead say “holiday song”) is actually a Hanukkah song? It’s the Barenaked Ladies singing “Hanukkah Blessings.” I swear, I could listen to that song a hundred times in a row and not get tired of it. I *ADORE* …

Liz’s reading list

In the last year or so, I have developed something of a reader’s care package — a set of books that I like to send to people when I find a receptive audience for my influence on what they should read. So, as a public service, I hereby present the Liz Norell list of what …

the (new) Land o’ Liz

So over the weekend, I moved into my new digs in Nashville, a moderately sized one-bedroom apartment that was very quickly dubbed the Land o’ Liz. I spent all of Monday unpacking and trying to get things settled, and while I still have a little fewer than a dozen boxes still to contend with, most …