The lump in the back of my throat that night wasn't for my inept Tar Heels, who had gotten blown away by Rutgers a couple days earlier, or the Washington Redskins, which had gotten blown away by Dallas in a forgettable end to a forgettable season that represented an absolutely miserable experience for fans of these old teams this fall.
During the mild months, the porch was screened in so we could read and sleep and play in a relatively bug free environment.
Proposed: The primary reason so many of today’s mothers are so very stressed by child rearing — something their grandmothers, for the most part, approached fairly nonchalantly — is because they do something their grandmothers did not do: they read parenting columns, magazines, and books.
While you can’t categorize “Inherent Vice” as an outright disaster, it spends an awful lot of time going nowhere in particular.
