Author Archives: Hannah

When we talk about the weather.

Last Friday night James and I went to go see Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.”  Have you seen it? I read it in high school and watched the movie many times but James had never seen or read it. … Continue reading

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Hip-Hop and Shake, or, Can you be a twerking feminist?

Last night I had a two and a half hour class on feminist literary criticism. We waxed poetic about if it is possible to have an écriture féminine (feminin writing); we debated the subalternity of the female voice; we bemoaned the state … Continue reading

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Where there’s smoke, there’s bacon.

My big brother and his girlfriend were in town this weekend and on Saturday morning I managed to make waffles and bacon without setting off our hyper-sensitive smoke detector. This success, while seemingly small, is in fact so colossal that … Continue reading

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The cold never bothered me anyway.

It is the strange nature of blogs that you both know so much about someone from reading them, and so little. You often think that you have an accurate view of the person blogging, but in reality you only receive an … Continue reading

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One time I went to Venice.

One time I had a vacation while I was living in Paris… And I went to Venice, because I will always choose Italy. And I met up with one of my dear friends there, even though our plans for connecting … Continue reading

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Game Night.

We have a lot of game nights around here. James likes to pretend that he hates games, and perhaps at one point he really did, but his objection has been ignored so many times that we have all forgotten about … Continue reading

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From the weekend

//I always loved Valentine’s Day, even long before I had an “official” valentine. But I sure do love Valentine’s Day  even more with that cutie. We started dating right before Valentine’s day 6 years ago and every February I think … Continue reading

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Today I am thankful for

Today I am thankful for snow days that come right when they are needed most, like miracles, or those rains that sweep across dry summer fields and leave the grass ready to lean towards the sun with renewed strength.  Everyone … Continue reading

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The weekend where we ate too much pizza and don’t even regret it.

Should I be ashamed that this past weekend began and end with us eschewing vegetables and ordering pizza? Obviously the answer is yes, I should be ashamed. But oh man, I love take-out pizza. And sometimes there are weekends that … Continue reading

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Learning Deutsch.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of more than one language will always want another one. Which is to say that this semester I am taking German. The choice was not wholly prompted by love … Continue reading

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