The war being waged against women in 2012 finds me spending a lot time in a heart-fluttering ALL CAPS rage. There’s so much rage and fear and utter incredulousness that I don’t even know what…
Date Archives February 2012
One of the sweetest love stories I’ve ever read
John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars the sweetest love story I’ve read since, well probably Steve Brezenoff’s Brooklyn, Burning. I thought it would be a longer period of time between sweet love stories. I…
Confessions of a wannabe: I often have awful taste in music
For most of my life I’ve wanted to be a musicgeek. A musicgeek like guys are musicgeeks, memorizing record labels and producers and studio musicians like they’re some sort of baseball stats. I wanted to…
The sadness zombie
I don’t like zombies. I don’t find them funny or offensive or ironic or anything but annoying. And yet here I am describing myself as a sadness zombie because I can think of no other…
In memory of Madison (1995-2012)
He was named after my favorite U.S. president, James Madison. What else is a sassy twenty-three-year-old PoliSci major to name a beautiful orange kitten? My dad had suggested Cinnamon, because apparently he thought I was…
Like nephew like aunt
After we finished cleaning up the dinner dishes, The Tibbles and I retired to the living room where they immediately began debating what movie they would watch. There were many shouts from Cade and Nolan…