Remember these shoes? My mom bought them for me for my birthday last year and they are magic shoes. For instance, early this spring, I wore them to the grocery store and, while picking out fresh green beans, an older man (I’m talking seventy) stopped me and said “I just love your shoes.” Well, then. Thank you. In fact, every…
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A Post about My Hair
Almost two years ago, desperate for a haircut, I stopped in at the local Great Clips and walked out with a haircut I loved. It was glorious. I found out the name of the woman who’d cut my hair and when she worked and returned again and again, always leaving with a hair cut I was happy with. Two months…
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Schedule
I wake up. At six a.m. I go to work. I do my TA office hours. I do some homework. I go to class. I come home, check my email, and go straight to bed. And that is why I have nothing to say except “yawn.” A yawn for my boring, busy life and a yawn because I’m freaking exhausted.
Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson seems to be considered one of the flagship novels of a new generation of Young Adult literature, where teens face the real problems in life and deal with them in various successful and unsuccessful ways. In these books, the main characters are rarely the most popular or beautiful or rich kids in school, but rarely…
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And, For Something Less Vacation-y
I wrote my first ever guest post for Elizabeth, author of Princess Nebraska, today. I’ve been reading her blog for almost a year now, and I’m never disappointed in her posts – they lack that fake happy-smile feel to them, where you wonder what’s really going on behind the blog, where you roll your eyes because “please, no one is…
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