Please feel free to steal this idea: If I were a student whose school is planning to open up for in-person learning and is NOT stringently enforcing a mandatory mask policy, I would organize a dress-code-based protest. I would find my school’s dress code and make sure all of my friends (we’ll pretend I’m a … More Facebook Post: August 10, 2020
Four star review, originally posted here on August 20, 2020. I first discovered Geraldine Brooks last year when I picked up Year of Wonders and was BLOWN AWAY. I got completely sucked in, moreso than I have with any other novel in a really long time, and wanted to give it 5 stars so badly. … More Goodreads Review: Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Originally posted here on July 29, 2020. I’m teetering between 3 and 4 stars here. In the end I’ve decided to round up to 4 because: 1. This worked really well as an audiobook2. The subject matter was interesting and important First off, Ronan Farrow narrates his own audiobook, which worked out great. There’s a … More Goodreads Review: Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
Two star review, originally posted here on July 19, 2020. I’ll start by emphasizing that I consumed this one as an audiobook, which may have been a poor choice. It could easily be that, had I been reading text, I may have liked this book more. That being said… I’m surprised at my own poor … More Goodreads Review: Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen
Two star review, originally posted here on April 18, 2020. Just not my jam. The immediate storyline is boring, and the creepy dystopian twist isn’t much of a twist (you could guess it in the first chapter) and isn’t interesting enough to warrant a novel-length build-up. It’s well written, and the lightly-drizzled clues along the … More Goodreads Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
I am scared of riding a bike. Here are some other things of which I am scared:– dogs– public speaking– small spaces– drowning/ being underwater– heights But today I am focusing on the bikes. I have been thinking about fear a lot over the past two days. That is because two days ago, something very … More I Am Scared of Riding a Bike
Last week, when Kamala Harris was announced as Biden’s VP pick, I got excited and posted the following comment on Facebook: “KAMALA HARRIS YES YES YES! Someone get me a giant yard sign STAT!” Most of my Facebook feed was full of other super excited pro-Harris posts, but one Facebook friend was less enthusiastic. He … More (in defense of) Getting Excited About Kamala Harris
I fell out of love with my own story…But something had happened that encouraged me not only to finish but to push my book to be more substantive than what I’d planned when I’d first set out. Falling Out of Love with a Story- An #Authors #Insights into the #Challenges of #Writing — Word Mongery and … More Falling Out of Love with a Story- An #Authors #Insights into the #Challenges of #Writing — Word Mongery and Musings
This morning I saw a video that brought back a memory for me. The incident in the video occurred a few days ago and is described here. In it, a white lady in a nice middle-class suburban neighborhood is calling the police on he black neighbors while continuing to argue with them. According to the … More Ingrained
June is my favorite month, because it is just so dang fun! The sun is out, the days are long, we’re not sick of the heat and humidity yet, life is just good! Wahoo! But smack dab in the middle of this party, each year, we have to stop and think for a moment about … More Reflections on the June Deportations in a Modern Context
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