about 3 months ago - 1 comment
My earliest memory involving pre-formal reading and storytelling is that of my dad telling me his invented tales of a little girl and little boy growing up in Nova Scotia. I cannot remember at what age I was when he first began telling me these stories, but it is definitely the first thing I can [...]
about 7 months ago - 2 comments
I’ve not been blogging lately. I got off to a good start, but then… life happened. How do you write about the personal in such a public place? I don’t know. I keep putting this off because I don’t know.
I went up to Illinois to be moral support for a friend who is going through [...]
about 8 months ago - No comments
All women, of all ages, ought to listen to Lindsey Markel’s You Are Among Friends, because it and she are amazing.
Lindsey Markel is one of those people I’ve come across in my internet experience over and over again, and though I’ve never been friends with her, she has always been a personal role model of [...]
about 8 months ago - No comments
That’s another saying I absolutely hate. You should not hate the work you do, whatever job it is you currently occupy. Work is a part of life. That is to say, life does not stop happening the 8-12 or more hours you are in your work place and it does not start happening the minute [...]
about 8 months ago - No comments
I hate that quote. It’s overused and a bit trite, in my opinion. What I find most irritating about it, however, is that it’s true.
I often find myself irritated by people in my life, especially myself, who spend their time complaining about how bad things are, how hard they are, how much things just [...]
about 8 months ago - 2 comments
In December of 2007, earned a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature. Immediately following graduation, I jumped right into taking graduate classes as a non-degree-seeking student. The most important thing I realized from this was that I was not ready for graduate school, which was fine… I was accepting of that, on one level. On another [...]
about 8 months ago - 1 comment
I am ready for autumn, for my own adventure of the English language and literature to begin again. In Autumn, I will begin graduate school in pursuit of my M.A. degree. I am over-excited, already, like a kid ready to begin kindergarten instead of a would-be adult. Where does this idea come from that adults [...]
