The town where I grew up has a curse on it. It’s a story that every school kid knows and a few anthropologists have written about. Kids tell it like […]
Meg Elison
Satire
Satire is a type of humor that holds up people’s vices or folly to witty mockery. The classic example of satire is Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” that solves problems […]
Preface to Gaiman, in the style of Samuel Johnson
**Our assignment was either to write a dull essay, or to emulate the style of Samuel Johnson in his dense yet ardent praise of William Shakespeare. Alone among my classmates, […]
Fox and Friends
Maybe I’m a cynic, but I just can’t get mad at Fox News anymore. They’re not real news. It’s a terrible pity that a large number of people use them […]
PantheaCon: Decompression
A good friend once loaned me a pair of boots when I realized the ones I had worn were highly inappropriate for our evening. She brought them out from under […]
#read2013
I resolved to read all new books this year. Normally I reread a great deal. Why? 1. I learn something new every time, even if I have read a book […]
The Tell-Tale Ankle
Before Thanksgiving I fell down the stairs I tumbled and twisted and yelled out some swears John came and rescued, I rested and iced After ten days it felt almost […]
Family
I thought about my family over the Thanksgiving holiday. Well, I think about my family all the time. My siblings are on Twitter, and my mom texts or calls all […]
Pawn Shop in a College Town
At a pawn shop in a college town You can buy the pieces to a better life Instruments someone else learned to play And a graphing calculator that […]
It’s Time.
I’m coming out. For those of you who know me, this may or may not come as a shock. I’ve talked it over with my husband, again and again, for […]