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5 Things I love Today
Today marks my first day of 21st grade! I mean, I guess since I am done taking classes and am also teaching, it isn’t quite the same, but I’m still counting it. 21 long years in education. Even though I … Continue reading
We should do this.
Sometime back in the spring, we got talking about bottomless brunch at Ambar with a group of friends. You remember the one– it’s the one that undid an entire weekend of plans with its siren song of bottomless mimosas and … Continue reading
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Mad Hatter
A couple weeks ago, I did what many of you might have done: I spent some online time doing a little shopping over at the Nordstrom Anniversary sale, where items that are typically obscenely expensive become, for a very brief … Continue reading
Does everyone know what time it is?
…TOOL TIME! If you read the title and the above wasn’t your response, than we obviously didn’t grow up in the same glorious 90’s world of Tim and Al. Wilson- come back and give us your unending wisdom. But in … Continue reading
Bottle this up.
Sometimes I think it would be fun to be one of those poised bloggers, one of those well curated spaces around the internet composed entirely of muted color palettes and carefully crafted posts. Sometimes I want to aspire to that … Continue reading
Capitol Hill Coffee.
I have a pretty great summer schedule down. Housework, exercise, home puttering, emails and photography things in the mornings, then off to a coffee shop for dissertation research or semester prep in the afternoon. This gives me a chance to … Continue reading
What happens when we love a racist: Atticus Finch and those times when our friends are wrong.
“Sometimes we have to kill a little so we can live.” ―Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman Chances are good that you have either read Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, or at least heard enough about the controversy surrounding … Continue reading
All about the books, bout the books, no TV.
Ok, that’s a lie. I am totally about the TV too, especially since it’s still Bachelor [in Paradise] season and there’s nothing I love more than my Bach family making fools of themselves and eschewing sunscreen in Mexico. But books! … Continue reading
August Recess.
Everyone gets to be an expert on at least one thing. Everything gets to know more than others about something about the thing that they do day in and day out. If you are a parent, you get to be … Continue reading
Dissertations and Distractions.
Y’ALL. I committed to a dissertation topic. I’m sure that only a tiny portion of you actually care about the minutia of our everyday, but to that portion, please know that THAT is how I have been spending my summer. … Continue reading
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The Art in Life 