I must admit...

... that this blog has been a bit maudlin lately so I thought I would switch gears and fluff it up a bit by taking a sec to reveal one of my little secrets... I adore cute, bouncy pop singers.

Olivia Newton-John, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, Wilson Philips, The Spice Girls, Xtina, Britney, Jessica Simpson, Hilary Duff, Lily Allen - I was in love with each one of them at some point, but none perhaps as much as I'm currently in love with Taylor Swift.

She's adorable - ridiculously adorable: she's sweet, classy, talented, and overall, just lovely. She's the Reese Witherspoon of the music industry: I want to pull on my cowboy boots and go out dancing with her.

She's from Pennsylvania (Wyommissing, to be exact), wrote her debut single about my country western husband (Tim McGraw), and, well, her middle name is the same as my first (Alison). But best of all, she won a national poetry contest at the age of 11. Sigh.

So, what's La Pointe of It All? All kids don't suck - some rock.