May 2011
1 post
I admit to finding really earnest sincerity EXTREMELY irritating.
April 2011
2 posts
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
3 posts
Feminism is so much harder to interest women in now than I think it ever has been- not because they don’t want equal pay or institutional representation or sexual health— but because they think they already have it.
Women's Center
If you’re my friend on Facebook then you’ve been inundated with statuses about the new LVC women’s center and its impending opening ceremony on Thursday. I still can’t get over it. 6 years of work, 6 years of fizzled enthusiasm, giving up, being distracted, shifting priorities, turned heads. 6 months of determination, petitioning, shaming, organization, emotional pleas, on...
January 2011
1 post
November 2010
1 post
Moving tomorrow.
See ya later, Annville.
October 2010
2 posts
Tired of waiting for winter. Tired of waiting to move. Tired of waiting to change.
Snow in November. Move in November New program, new husband, new life in January.
August 2010
3 posts
fuckyeahemo:
KILL CREEK - Proving Winter Cruel
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I’m always thinking about God. It drives me crazy, really, how often I think about Him.
I miss church. I don’t miss the stodgy women who look down their noses at my tattoos as they shield their children behind their arms, trying to create a force field between my terrible influence and their innocence. I don’t miss the super liberal women who expand and expand and expand God so...
I love Jon Stewart because he uses comedy as a platform to challenge power.
I love Stephen Colbert infinitely more because he uses comedy as a vehicle to speak truth to power. He just tore apart Laura Ingraham. Tore. her. apart.
Gorgeous.
July 2010
1 post
Is it wrong to laugh so hard at the people I remember when I think how small they were and how small I was and how sorry I am now?
April 2010
2 posts
RP from my other blog.
I made my own butter today on my walk. I took the dog’s leash in one hand, and a wide-mouth mason jar half-filled with sweetcream in the other and walked down a new street I just discovered last week. The new walking route is a treat for Boss because he likes to run at full leash extension and smell everything in our sweeping 16 foot radius, and this route takes us along the backs of the Maple...
March 2010
3 posts
SPOILER WARNING
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Two months until I graduate. I am practically counting down the seconds.
Spring Break
Last spring break of my regular college career.
Submitted my application to PSU Humanities M.A. program today after much convincing and encouragement. I hate making plans when I feel like other important things are up in the air, but whatever. Mel yelled at me until I applied. It was a smart move, I guess.
Anyone out in Tumblrland watch LOST? Probably not. Pretty much all my followers are...
February 2010
1 post
Too much drama, little mama.
January 2010
3 posts
Portfolio Reading List, Spring '10
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Hawk is Dying - Harry Crews
The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
A Good Man is Hard to Find and The Life You Save May Be Your Own - Flannery O’Connor
Uncle - Daniel Woodrell
Who Has Seen the Wind? and The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
We grow up and we grow old.
Our friends blow apart and they grow cold.
Tumbleweed.
I cannot, for the life of me, stop listening to Tara Toms and the Tumbleweed. Seriously.
In other news, I just finished The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. It was SO AWESOME- why didn’t I read that before? Wtf past-Mary? I could read Southern Gothic all day, everyday and never get tired of it. I feel the same way about Cormac McCarthy and F. Scott Fitzgerald books.
What kind of book gives you...
December 2009
4 posts
Cooking blog
Hey dudes. Like recipes and personal drama? Check out Jumble Chef.
http://jumblejumble.tumblr.com
In defense of a secular Christmas
I am not a Christian. Do I believe in God? Sort of. Maybe. The jury’s out, but the point here is that I don’t worship in church/ mass, don’t believe Jesus was God incarnate, etc. But every year, I wish people a cheerful “Merry Christmas!”
Christmas has come to mean more than Christ’s birth, and I argue it has come to mean OTHER than that. We have two divergent...
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Cream of Potato Soup
3 good-sized red potatoes, roughly cubed 1/4 of an onion, chopped 2 Tbsp butter 1 1/2 C heavy cream 1 tsp ground coriander 1 tsp Sriracha sauce 1/2 C cheese sea salt to taste
Boil potato hunks until soft. In the meantime, brown onions in butter in a skillet. When browned, add cream and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to simmer and mix in coriander and Sriracha sauce. Continue...
Don't just watch.
Help them!
September 2009
1 post
Any man who knows a thing knows he knows not a damn thing at all.
Empty Apartment Filled.
Empty, Now Filled.
I moved into the stone house on Lancaster Street in May of 2007. He didn’t think I’d leave but I did. I told him I wasn’t afraid to be alone and flounced out the door the day after finals were over and he was so angry he put what was left of my belongings on the lawn, raving and frothing in anger in a spectacle all the neighbors enjoyed. They liked him even less...
August 2009
6 posts
Scent of a man.
I had an odd experience today. In close quarters during an ice breaker activity at peer mentor training, a man in front of me grabbed my hip to pull me toward him a little. Now normally, when someone grabs someone else to pull them forward, especially if it is someone with whom you are not entirely familiar, you grab their arm, their shoulder, their hand- but their waist or hip?!
Even stranger,...
The Searchers.
“The truth is that our finest moments, are most likely to occur when we feel deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we step out of our ruts, and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
- M. Scott Peck
People believe that I have given up on God, or that I believe God has given up on me. This...
Well.
Here we go, I guess.