The year I dressed up for Halloween as Snow White Sister #2 was Wonder Woman. Our costumes were just like the ones pictured above. Because we were Minnesota kids those costumes were worn over our…
Date Archives October 2018
Day 98 of 200: Librarians I Have Known Pt. I
I’m in the midst of Susan Orlean’s The Library Book, and it’s making me super sentimental about libraries and librarians, in specific. When I was a sophomore gym was a required class. As a 6’3″…
Day 97 of 200: Still Busy, Still Boring
It’s not Sunday, but I’m still boring. Do you remember when I used to do weekly Sunday + Boring posts? Ahhh. . . the good old days of 2015 when I tried to blog like…
Day 96 of 200: Fried
I’m not one a person who conflates busyness with being interesting. A lot of people do. If you’ve ever read world-class mommyblog Dooce at all since she got divorced, you know exactly what I mean….
Day 95 of 200: Rage Blanket Update
When I was a kid — old enough to understand the news, but still young enough to not totally get it — I remember hearing about the war in Beirut on the news all the…
Day 94 of 200: The Hair Chronicles
When I first shaved my head in April my plan was to do buzz it once and then begin the laborious grow-out process. Much to my surprise I really liked not having hair. It was…