At my family reunion a few weeks ago, a number of the cousins sat around swapping dating stories, which quickly dissolved into “tell us about the worst date you’ve ever had.” It was awesome. When my cousin Emily told us about her 6+ foot, 250 pound date who leaped around the living room, over the couches, and under the piano…
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Moving
Last weekend, flying back to Austin from Las Vegas, and knowing we would be closing on our house a few days later, I wrote this, planning to post it yesterday: Today we sold our house. Our darling brick house. The house that we bought one day before my 21st birthday. The house we imagined we might bring our first child…
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
6 of 10: I liked Never Let Me Go well enough, but it never gripped me and I never felt like there was a substantial plot payoff. In my mind, there are better books on this topic. This was the book RA recommended to me, that sparked the plans for “Tell Me What To Read.” The title didn’t give me…
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All the World’s a Stage
I’m in Vegas again for the week and on Wednesday, my mom and I drove up to Cedar City, UT for the Utah Shakespeare Festival. If you’ve never been, or never even heard of it, you are missing out. We’ve gone nearly every year for the past 15 years and loved every single play we’ve seen (and we’ve probably seen…
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What I’m Going to Read: Round 1
The big winner (who won nothing) was Crafty Ashley with her suggestion of The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee. However, I’d already read it, so I emailed her back for her second choice and she responded with Life with Picasso. I’ve already requested it from the UT library and I’ll start it next week. I won’t pretend I’m not…
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