Fifty Shades…
So I read a fairy tale the other day. Actually, three fairy tales. A trilogy about a young girl who meets a handsome stranger with a dark secret. They fall in love (you knew that was coming, right?),...
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1. The Sun. Which is to say, sunbathing. Which is to say that yes, in about three years I’m going to look like a Slim Jim (I used to say ten years, but living in this desert climate is accelerating...
View Articlethe things they carried (with thanks to Tim O’Brien)
Tim O’Brien has a fantastic book called The Things They Carried, about the talismanic objects that Viet Nam soldiers carried in their rucksacks. We all carry things with us – things to remind us of...
View ArticleMonday Listicles: what i learned in 2012
Stasha’s listicle today, with a suggestion from Kerstin at Auer Life: ten things we learned in 2012. I’d like to go on record as saying it’s still a little soon to be making lists about the entirety of...
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Mid-December and the madness is upon us: students trapped in end-of-semester zombie-state, with circles under their eyes down to their jawlines; piles of (as yet ungraded) papers; emails from Grandma...
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