a realization
A list: All of this just lives in my head. Every once in a while I’m almost convinced I stuck to it out of spite. I’m sure none of the teachers remember any of it, but because I turn everything…
alicia
oblitophobia
(Time to be dramatic!) Earlier this week, amidst all the overblown screeching about Target’s Pride merchandise, Facebook saw fit to show me that more than one member of my extended family is comfortable with making explicit and violent threats in…
5 small things I’m reading, vol. 2
The one where I realize I’m reading more than one piece about Christianity. Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers, The Marginalian Rivers may be among our richest existential metaphors — “Time is a river which sweeps me along, but…
the good place
I turned 36 last week. Yuck. It’s hard sometimes to not measure the value of a life only in comparison to its context – do I have children and a dog and a home and a savings account? No, but…
“Cutting Greens,” Lucille Clifton
“Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” Adam Zagajewski
“Supper,” Garrison Keillor
“We Lived Happily During the War,” Ilya Kaminsky
“Under One Small Star,” Wisława Szymborska
