Embrace Your Inner Dork
Okay, here's the thing: I am not an expert in, like, anything. Which begs the question: why I am blogging? I cannot write about playing midwestern-cattle-wranglin'-footsie with […]
Writing
Chicken Maaaaaaaaaaannnn! And Other Heroes.
Scene: A small village in Germany, and a green stucco house in Reykjavik, Iceland. Two young girls living an ocean apart create a comic strip through […]
Bloggy Woggy Doo Dah
We hiked for hours in the sun to get this picture. It was hard. But my daughter would tell you it was worth it. Life […]
Fairy Unusual Tales
Once upon a time I became obsessed with fairy tales. And not just the Snow Whites and Cinderellas and Sleeping Beauties. I'd read those. Disney'd […]
Got Priorities? Yeah. Working on That.
Sometimes it is easy to get lost in the things that are slightly less important–but so enjoyable and social and frankly have some immediate gratification […]
Freeeeeddddooooommm!
This is the story of a castle in Kusel. And a dog. And a deeply terraced hill. We were stationed at Ramstein Air Force Base, […]
The Brain to Page Differential
When I was six my family moved to a forested home in Maryland, from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The difference between the fields of trees that […]
Freedom of Restraint
You know when you’re a kid and your mom gets roses from your dad because its their anniversary, or he’s trying to figure out what […]
That Thing I Do. And a Lot of Other People Do Too.
I am writing a novel.I know.My originality stuns me. 5-10% of people who start writing a novel finish it.40-50% of people who start college finish […]
So Like, Here’s What I Totally Did Today
I’m thinking that my blog must be boring as snot (which, as we all know, is pretty boring) because I don’t do the whole slice-of-life-thing […]