Date Archives November 2018

Day 129 of 200: Patty Jane’s House of Snotting Your Face Off

The first time I read Lorna Landvik’s Patty Jane’s House of Curl, I was a 23-year-old gas station attendant. I…

Forgive me if you’ve heard this one before. When you are so old you forget how old you are (my…

Roughly 63 days ago I decided I needed to learn some Spanish. I know it was 63 days ago because…

When I was in fourth grade, Mrs. Reinking gave me a three in the “Reads widely” section of my report…

It’s 10:30 on Monday night and I don’t have a thought in my head. I thought I had a few,…

Because I come from a certain brand of Midwestern passive-aggression I have a lot of invite anxiety. More so on…

I’ve just returned from Rock & Roll Bookclub, which went way way later than I had planned. If I had…

I officially ruined Thanksgiving at 2:08 p.m. when I quizzed my libertarian, Trump-voting nephew a little too severely for his…

7. The Quirkducers Louise: How you doing girl? Tina: Um, not great. I feel like my soul has diarrhea. 6….

I’m not a baker. In fact, I loathe it. I like the art of cooking. The science of baking kind…