Email Author Jennifer Davis-lamm

2012 Stories by Jennifer Davis-lamm

• Hope You Have The Time Of Your Life

  published May 3, 2012

  You understand that because Green Day has managed to have American Idiot adapted into a Broadway show, anything is possible —... More >>

• Tropical Heat Wave

  published May 17, 2012

  Tropic of Cancer is one of those watershed books. You hear about it in high school English class from some know-it-all literary snob who... More >>

• Embrace Your Chains

  published May 17, 2012

  If you’ve spent any amount of time in Addison at all, you know that it’s a perfectly nice town with a lot of office buildings,... More >>

• Etsy Steps Out of the Virtual World

  published May 3, 2012

  Oh, Etsy — online purveyors of everything cute and unique and of that which inspires so much coveting from house guests and neighbors and... More >>

• Learn How to Flaunt It

  published April 26, 2012

  There are people in the world who roll out of their beds each morning, stumble through their closets and manage to throw together an array of... More >>

• Ready to Drink, Ready to Run... In Fuzzy Helmets

  published April 19, 2012

  In his new book The Big Miss, golf coach Hank Haney tells a story about how Tiger Woods decided he wanted to be a Navy SEAL a few years... More >>

• Spring Into Art

  published April 19, 2012

  Weekend after weekend, the cars pile up on the service roads that lead to NorthPark Center and I wonder why. Why do we load the kids into the car,... More >>

• Be Cool with the Uptown Gang

  published April 12, 2012

  Barring the occasional tornado (please do), now is the best possible time for an outdoor celebration in Dallas. So we celebrate. We celebrate just... More >>

• Racing With Class

  published April 12, 2012

  Racing season is upon us, and I’m not talking NASCAR. Though exhaust fumes may fill the air and RVs may clog the highways on their way to... More >>

• On Thin, but Magical, Ice

  published March 29, 2012

  Disney is nothing if not a multi-tasker. The fairy tale conglomerate has its hand in everything from juice boxes to dinnerware to upholstery to... More >>

• The Madcap Sound of Silence

  published April 5, 2012

  The Oyster Princess is a crazy acid trip of a silent film. It’s a German silent movie that features a heroine who makes those... More >>

• Here's Listening to You, Kid

  published April 5, 2012

  If ever a movie called for a live orchestra, it's Casablanca. The moody, noir-ish classic, set during World War II, is one of the... More >>

• Get Your Kicks

  published March 29, 2012

  I spend a lot of time in parks these days, and while I’m running back and forth prying acorns out of a toddler’s mouth and regulating... More >>

• The Observer Goes Greenville

  published March 15, 2012

  You’ve traversed your way up and down Greenville Avenue since the wee hours of the morning, gone balls out just to snag a set of green beads... More >>

• Kid-Lit And Grown-Up Flicks, Stay Young At The DMA

  published March 15, 2012

  The literature that starts to fill up your house when you have a little one is one of the best parts of being a parent. Board books, pop-up books,... More >>

• Get Your Family Hooked on Art

  published March 8, 2012

  When you grow up in a town whose only museum featured the same quilting exhibit for nearly 12 years, you learn to appreciate the multitude of... More >>

• Magic in the Interim

  published February 16, 2012

  There’s something magical about watching an artist in the process of creation. And I don’t mean magical in the way that the vitamin... More >>

• Tuna On A Roll

  published February 23, 2012

  Did you know that Tuna, Texas, once was a real place? The great and mighty Texas State Historical Association posits that indeed, it was a lively... More >>

• Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music

  published March 1, 2012

  My toddler doesn’t know who Elmo is. That isn’t because we’ve taken a holier-than-though stance on TV viewing, but rather... More >>

• How Goal-Oriented Moms Do It

  published January 26, 2012

  Oh, but I would love to know the secrets of the soccer mom. They float onto the playground with their impossibly glossy hair, their North Face... More >>

• Giant Is Epic, Damn It!

  published January 19, 2012

  I was reprimanded recently for misusing the word “epic”. I said something to the effect that my Buffalo wings were epic, and my dining... More >>

• In the Lee of Valentine’s Day

  published February 9, 2012

  It’s the day after Valentine’s Day and you need a little grit to get the too-sweet taste of chocolate out of your mouth. You need to... More >>

• Little Red Ballet

  published February 2, 2012

  According to weatherman (and stone cold fox) Pete Delkus, Canada has ruined our chances of having an actual winter this year by refusing to play... More >>

• Meet Miss Jones, Feminist Icon and Brat

  published January 19, 2012

  With all the sassy little girl characters out there in the literary world, it boggles the mind to think that self-esteem is such a huge issue... More >>

• You Don't Have to Climb a Mountain to Dream

  published January 12, 2012

  It’s easy to become a jaded, bitter misanthrope when you live in a world teeming with anonymous Internet comments, negative status updates... More >>