About this Burbia Blogger
- added on 02/04/2008
Valerie Block
Valerie Block is the author of the novels Don't Make A Scene (Ballantine, 2007), None of Your Business (Ballantine, 2003) and Was It Something I Said? (SoHo Press, 1998). She lives in New Jersey with her husband, the writer Alexis Romay.
Blogs by Valerie Block
The front door had a slot with a brass plate covering it. But it was a hole into the house, and it had to go. I didn't like the idea of someone's hand in my house. It violated the whole point of the door. So when my husband and I organized the burglar alarm, we also arranged to have the hole ...read more.
Perhaps I was a bit hasty recently when I compared CVS to a vertically integrated hydra of world domination. Last week, on vacation to Italy, I had reason to feel nostalgic for the US model of self-service, as poor packing meant several visits to farmacias for basic over-the-counter products. ...read more.
Last year, when the big chain video rental store went out of business, and a branch of a bank no one had ever heard of opened up in its place, there was talk around town. The equivalent of Main Street had five bank branches already. How many banks does one town of 38,000 people need? ...read more.
The recent news that European carriers may allow passengers to use cell phones during flight sent a bolt of pain fizzing throughout my body. The skies are one of the few provinces as yet unconquered by the tribe of raging cell phone narcissists who have bullied ...read more.
The Obama signs that popped up on our neighbors' lawns were the same size as those that indicate that a roofer has landed. The appearance of the signs told me that the X's and the Y's were democrats, which I had suspected, but it made me wonder: Would the signs stimulate or stifle political
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