This one might ramble a bit, because it’s been a while and I’m feeling rambly. I have a 5-year-old niece; let’s call her C. She’s an incredible child (how could she not be, coming from such excellent stock?). Smart as can be, curious, a champion reader (again, natch, given her family), long-legged, prone to shrieking,Continue reading “Hold on, little girl…”
Category Archives: Pop (or not-so pop) culture
Why can’t it be Scout’s story?
Let’s start with one clear, unalienable truth: I love Aaron Sorkin’s writing. I love SportsNight, A Few Good Men, Studio 60, and of course, The West Wing Seasons 1-4. I haven’t seen The Social Network, The Farnsworth Invention, or Steve Jobs, but I’m sure I’d love them. I mean, this is how much I love AaronContinue reading “Why can’t it be Scout’s story?”
Of Gorillas and Guns and Expertise
It seems like a long time ago, doesn’t it? You remember, that time when we all became experts on gorilla behavior. And parenting. Boy, did we bring out the self-righteous pitchforks on that one. Then, we got distracted from our armchair zoology by a 3-month sentence for a young man who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman, and suddenlyContinue reading “Of Gorillas and Guns and Expertise”
Mother’s Day through my (niftyfifty) lens
Some of my blog readers might not know that I have a weekly photo challenge over on facebook, where 2 of my fellow amateur photographers and I challenge each other to a weekly photo posting. We have to take the photos with our 50mm lenses, which are fixed lenses that don’t allow for zoom, butContinue reading “Mother’s Day through my (niftyfifty) lens”
Today I had a moment
If you haven’t really experienced it, you don’t know. You just don’t. You don’t know what it’s like to put on a skirt and purple tights, and stare for long minutes in the mirror, fretting the skirt is too short, that you’re showing too much of your definitely-not-skinny legs. To wonder if you have theContinue reading “Today I had a moment”
Everything and a Racehorse 