My superhero dad turns another year older today. He’s in China on a long business trip. This year, for your birthday, we’ve decided to take you away from your family for three…
When I graduated college in 2010 I came home and had no plan. It was terrifying and exciting to suddenly be so profoundly unsure of what came next. I found myself disconnected…
January is the accepted time to talk beginnings and fresh starts. In January we talk about the new year and the big plans we make as a New Year’s Resolution obsessed culture.…
I had this big plan to blog more often this year. This blog, specifically. I was going to give myself schedules. Right now, I should be posting Monday, Wednesday, Friday. When I…
A couple days after blogging about getting reacclimated to the sounds (or lack thereof) of falling asleep here in Missouri I received an ARC copy of The Weight of Blood by Laura…
Academic life has a lot of hard endings and beginnings. Finite markers. Here is where one thing ends and another begins. There’s something gratifying in that because you are given a definitive…
A few nights ago I heard sirens and I was struck by the strangeness of it. Mostly I was struck by the strangeness of it being strange. We live far away from…
In the summer of 2012 I got to spend a few weeks in Morocco as part of my graduate program. I wrote some posts about that. I made a short video on…
I’m still vomiting feelings all over your internet, but I get to do that because I have a blog. That’s one of the reasons I have blogs. I also have comment sections,…
If you are hurting, I would like you to be my valentine. Please be my valentine, friend or stranger. If you are hurting, I choose you. I know it’s a Hallmark holiday…