This is here as an excuse to talk about two other giant rings: the future Mrs. Kardashian's and the one Kandi Burruss wore on the recent RHOA reunion. What even was that?
I leave Cornell this morning! I met SO many wonderful, wonderful Toasties and Cornell students and writers and it's really been a lovely trip. This is a picture of me in bed with Mallory and Rachel Fershleiser, watching
Crimson Peak
and eating fried pickles in the middle of the day.
"On April 16, thirty-four-year-old Eric Hatry, barrister brother of the goaled financier Clarence Hatry, was charged with urging his dog to worry a cat in Soho."
There is this prevalent idea, one that sites like Ancestry.com promote, that by knowing our personal histories we can move forward with a clearer picture of ourselves.
Constance Fenimore Woolson was respected by critics of her day and viewed as a successor to George Eliot and a peer of James and William Dean Howells. In the years since her death, Woolson has become known as a tragic heroine in a story not of her own making, rather than what she really was: a marvelous maker of stories herself.
"A tiny, resourceful creature that lived 430 million years ago devised a novel method for such baby tracking: It tethered egg pouches to its back with threads and trailed its juveniles as they grew, as if they were tiny kites."
Amy Mihyang Ginther is a professor at UC Santa Cruz. She is founder and owner of Vocal Context, where she runs workshops that empower women and people of color in their communication skills. She has contributed to Transracial Eyes and Modern Loss. Amy does not live with her two cats and wants to know if you're gonna eat that.
I miss the ritual of taping songs off the radio: looking for a fresh blank tape, not finding one and having to choose which cassette to sacrifice to the cause, Scotch-taping over the holes along the top to render it able to record again, and situating myself in front of the radio, waiting waiting waiting for the DJ to play my favorite songs so I could record them to listen to later.
hey we're starting soon are you coming in? do you remember we said we'd meet at nine? The human race is a monotonous affair are you on your way? Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live so you're not coming in and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it…
