When the Dixie Chicks covered “Landslide,” Natalie Maines marveled that she was the same age then as Stevie Nicks had been when she wrote the song.
It’s not my favorite Fleetwood Mac song (”World Turning,” if you’re curious) or my favorite Stevie Nicks song (”Whole Lotta Trouble”) or my favorite Dixie Chicks song (”Cowboy Take Me [...]

Jaclyn Friedman asked on Twitter what she should put in her niece’s care package. It got me thinking about all those little things I needed in college or discovered in college. So here’s my list of the ultimate college care package:

 iTunes Gift card or a gift of a given playlist.
Tide Stain Remover Pen, because we [...]

Raised Catholic, you automatically get a set of beliefs handed to you. It’s printed on the Communion wafers. Honest. But I was also handed a brain upon, well… that’s a whole other discussion, but suffice to say that I have one, and I use it (mostly, I swear Ma!). I was taught to think for [...]

Sunfish: sigh
what have i been doing with my LIFE

Starfish: being awesome
but i’m right there with you
i’m 27 and JUST hoping to start a career????
i’m such a bum

Sunfish: Heh
I’m 26 and still haven’t chosen one
I mean, I haven’t chosen a Day Career

Starfish: we may not have a day career
but we got night moves
Night Moves on YouTube

I’ve been in grad school longer than I’ve known my husband – which granted isn’t saying much as we were married in the blink of an eye, but besides who are we to judge how long it takes to people to know that their hearts just belong…. Yeah I couldn’t finish that drivel either… I [...]

I never had the least bit of interest in Eat Pray Love. The premise, as it was described to me, sounded like precisely the kind of book I would loathe: The Travel as a Moral Imperative genre combined with meditating (fuck meditation)? Noooo thank you. Then I found out that the author’s year of travel [...]

Hey, you know what I DIDN’T do yesterday? Write a bazillion pages for the novel I’m writing. I have six pages due on Saturday morning. Oops.

I was reading Matthew Yglesias’s blog post today on class-based affirmative action, which is an issue I’m interested in generally because it has had a direct impact on my life–well, maybe. Sort of. This is a not-quite Aquarius, not-quite Pisces moment, folks. An in-betweenie, equivocating, hedge-betting, KINDA SORTA MAYBE, JUST LEAVE ME ALONE AND LET [...]

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