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I am incredibly homesick. I wish I could say I reached this realization in a respectable, rational way, but that would be a lie. I actually recognized it while reading The Hunger Games series. I’m not especially proud of it. This is a typical example of how I tend to freely indulge my erratic emotions. […]
When I was driving around New Orleans on Mardi Gras night, searching desperately for an open grocery store that sold raw oysters, I could have been compared to a movie superhero. Not even a superhero, though. Just calling me the hero of a romantic comedy would be sufficient. I was on a rescue mission, striving […]
When I first got to college, three of the first people I met had all grown up together and sung in school choirs for years. Their voices were fabulous. One of the very first nights we all hung out, we were playing music while getting ready. Amidst the rather loud rendition of a Dixie Chicks […]
I went to camp longer than the average person. For this reason, I never had a paying job until the summer after I graduated from high school. It wasn’t just a casual internship – I’d tackled my fair share of those in the summers before or after camp. This one had a real paycheck and […]
On a wonderful, but rare trip home recently, I opened the newspaper to find a massive picture of daffodils covering the front page. It was an ant’s view, staring up into rays of sunshine drifting down on towering green grass shoots and delicate stemmed flowers. The bright yellow blossoms stretched above and below the paper’s […]
Being out of college has taught me the answers to some of life in the first world’s most important questions. I have learned how to budget my money fairly well. It’s generally divided in my head into two categories: “bills” and “food.” I know that if my car says “15 miles to Empty” that it […]
I was in high school, eating my breakfast, and watching my dad fill up his coffee mug when these words actually came out of my mouth: “I’m never going to start drinking coffee because I can’t imagine waking up and needing it everyday. That sounds awful.” Yeah right. A little kid that promises he will […]
Junior year of college, I went on what my school liked to call an “Alternative Spring Break trip.” Rather than heading to the beach or visiting high school friends, I went on an outreach trip to Ecuador. The entire concept of this was terrifying to me for one primary reason: I am an introvert. In […]
I went to college at Sewanee: the University of the South. If you’ve never seen Sewanee, you need to because no words can truly capture the beauty or spirit of the Sewanee community. For a first time visitor, there is a peculiar sense of mystery that is evoked by the campus and the students wandering […]
By 7:45 am yesterday, I was wearing a fox costume, complete with massive tail, my Mardi Gras tutu, a Mardi Gras top hat, and a mask. Mardi Gras fox was ready. By 8:00 I was saying “hi” to my neighbors who stared at me strangely, despite the fact that the entire family – husband, wife, […]
