About this Burbia Blogger
- added on 01/27/2009
Amy Vernon
Amy Vernon grew up on Long Island and has lived in the Chicago, Miami, Phoenix and New York metropolitan areas at various points in her life. In other words, she's spent her entire life in the suburbs, except that summer she interned for The Courier-Journal in Kentucky, though the Louisville neighborhood she lived in seemed pretty dang suburban.
She has a bachelor of science in journalism (that's a B.S. in journalism, get it?) from Northwestern University and worked for newspapers as a reporter, editor and blogger for nearly 20 years before she was laid off in the great newspaper culling of 2008.
Amy now works from home as a freelance consultant and writer with her husband, a writer/actor/stay-at-home father who has taken on the additional role of office manager as she settles into her new life. Her older son, Rafael, loves zebras, giraffes and elephants, while the younger, Markus, is utterly obsessed with the "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" book and DVD.
Got all that? You can find Amy online waxing poetic about television -- particularly 24, Battlestar Galactica and Lost, not necessarily in that order -- at The TV Tyrant or follow her on Twitter @amyvernon.
Blogs by Amy Vernon
I'd forgotten what a sport parking is in Rome. In New York, there are people who map out all the spots in their neighborhood and know exactly what time is perfect to go claim that spot. Others will drive around for half an hour or more looking for on-street parking just for the principle of not paying for a garage. Wusses. No one in Rome would be caught dead paying that much ...read more.
My youngest, who's about 2 ½, love love loves Thomas and Friends. To those of you who don't have children (particularly boys, but many girls love the trains of Sodor), Thomas is a Tank Engine who rides the rails of the Island of Sodor. He's the brainchild ...read more.
Later this month, I will turn 40. Forty. The big four-oh. Four decades old. Somehow, I just can't get myself too wound up about it. I know I'm supposed to be all stressed out, gazing into the mirror, trying to find the latest gray hairs, making an appointment with my stylist for a coloring or ...read more.
I was talking with a college classmate the other day and somehow we started discussing how we were damn proud to be card-carrying members of Generation X. We were saddled with a bad rep from about the time we graduated from college ...read more.
I'll admit it: I'm one of those people who once declared how I didn't get the point of Twitter and am now utterly, hopelessly and completely addicted. First thing I do when I boot up my computer is launch Tweetdeck. I avidly check for @ replies and skim through my Twitter stream for interesting things to ...read more.
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