Winter is here

Advent is underway. The first snow dusty the ground, though hardly any stuck. I made snickerdoodles for my last day of Sociology class. Sparky’s has egg nog ice cream – it is perfect. We put up a wreath and a little fake tree and lighted garland in our townhouse.
We tried to visit the Magic Tree [...]

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Thanksgiving Break

I have so much I should be doing right now, but I’m tired of this semester. Research papers constitute the only type of writing I get to do this semester. I hate research papers. I used to think it was because they’re so much work and I’m lazy, but it’s really because they’re all about [...]

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Esquire Assignment

I’m supposed to be planning an issue of Esquire magazine for my mag editing class. I must pick a topic for the issue, then write a table of contents description of each story that will go in the issue, complete with bylines. Trouble is, I struggle to connect with Esquire’s readers. Some demographics of Esquire [...]

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Dear Google,

There’s no denying that my generation has developed an unprecedented dependency on the internet. But just how far does that dependency go? Can Google give us everything we need?
WordPress Dashboard shows me what people typed into their searches that brought up my blog. One of the recent searches was “im a student what should i [...]

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Days go by

“Days go by, I can feel them flying like a hand out the window in the wind. The cars go by, yeah it’s all we’ve been given so you’d better start living right now… We talk about tomorrow, then it slips away.”  -Keith Urban, Days Go By
Today I registered for the final semester of my [...]

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Random reflections while sitting on a rock

“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” –Claude Monet
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I love it here when the leaves are changing. There are no real reds or pinks, mostly burnt orange and browning yellow – true autumnal colors. I only wish the cliff faced the west as the sun sinks behind a veil of [...]

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Thwarted

“The best laid schemes of mice and men go often askew…” -Robert Burns, To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, with a Plough
This weekend, most of my schemes have fallen apart, but it’s been nice anyway. Phi Lamb’s Active Retreat was Friday night til Saturday morning. After this, I planned to head [...]

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Kicking the cold, reflecting on reading

I’m slightly less sick now. Thanks to all of you faithful blog followers who have been diligently bringing up this site, waiting to see if I’ve turned into a swine. I don’t want to disappoint any gamblers who might have been betting against me, but I’m still just a short caucasian girl with a runny [...]

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Swine Flu

Swine flu. I don’t believe the hype…or do I?

I don’t think I have it, but I feel like death warmed over. I hardly got out of bed today. Class? Forget about it. A brief history: since August I’ve had off and on variations of sore throat, cough, congestion, sneezing, watery eyes, etc. This weekend the [...]

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My article in Vox

“My experience was not just the homosexual thing, it’s the story of a radically transformed life,” Alan Toigo says. “I am not the same person I was 10 years ago.”
This is the story I sought to capture. A deep struggle, a life lived in confusion and lies and the ultimate peace and comfort that one [...]

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