Local beer news: can you say Cold Mountain?
It’s a happy, happy week for craft beer here in WNC! Local beer lovers, rejoice! Yes, Highland Brewing’s Cold Mountain Winter Ale is out and about. The first batch (there will be two this year) is hitting stores now in one-liter and 22-ounce bottles (find it at

Weekly parent: babies are vampires (plus other stuff published this week)
In this week’s column I tell the truth about babies. They’re cute vampires! I recently had a conversation with a friend about how much life babies suck out of their mamas. Yes, they suck vast quantities of milk

Geek party ahead
This Friday night is the geekiest party of the year–Spookypalooza–a costumed conclave of WNC’s bloggers, tweeters, and Facebookers. And I need a witch hat. We have an

Weekly parent: trading in the orange for some green
Trying to green Halloween, but I need help. I also need a witch hat for next Friday night’s Spooky Blogapoolooza party. Clearly, after writing this column, I can’t go buy one. And I can’t sew. Anyone got one I can borrow?

Weekly parent: All hail “Wimpy Kid”
I’m really excited about this week’s column about the new book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. I scored a (short) interview with the author, Jeff Kinney. Here’s an excerpt: We’re so into Wimpy Kid that we’ve been talking about Oct. 12 like it was the da