I have a piece out in The Atlantic today! For me, this is a huge milestone and also a very important piece, so give it a read. A chocolate cake with red jello balls on top. It’s the day before NaNo and all through the house… I’m throwing around drafts and outlines trying to get […]
From humble beginnings… In the spirit of ringing in the new year, let’s talk about beginnings. First, a cliche: for every beginning, there is an ending. I have been thinking a lot in the context of endings recently – our school semester ended, then the year, and several more personal events ended their long sagas […]
As you may (or may not) know, I do not celebrate Christmas. Although I could celebrate it in a secular way, the holiday has never really held that much appeal for me. However, I do know that it is a day of great joy and festiveness for a lot of people, thus there’s a general […]
I got to the end of Erasmus* and began to fizzle out. This week was the first of many “normal” weeks that I’ll be having this semester: chock full of required readings, event planning, and learning to skate. And each day I come home more tired and more ready to cut out early on anything […]
I realized quite a bit late that most of my posts from last week were food-related, which was not necessarily a bad thing, but a little repetitive! So, this week I am going to avoid food and talk about something completely different. I have had one problem for pretty much my entire teenage and adult […]