I can hardly believe that book is finally coming out now — in less than a week!

You’re all invited to join me at one these celebratory events. Expect to find me standing in the bookstore/library with my eyes dilated, muttering to myself, “I have a BOOK.”

If you were to ask me the one thing I hate about living in Omaha …

If I didn’t say the heat or the humidity, or the politics, or the scarcity of public transportation, I’d think I’d say the grass.

Or rather, the lawns.

I don’t understand lawns. As a concept.

The idea of covering every scrap of ground with the most innocuous, boring plant possible — and then obsessing over its length and consistency.

The fact that people spend their free time doing this. The fact that they spend even more free time talking about it. The fact that chemicals are involved.