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Cover image from Moana. Screen cap via. An approximation of how I’ve felt the past few weeks. I’ve had a rough few weeks. Personally, professionally, mentally, emotionally, physically… you name it. It’s been difficult to fire on all cylinders. After a particularly trying week, I gave myself permission this weekend to just be. Terry and I…
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Cover photo via. If you’re a gamer or on the internet often, you know who Felicia Day is. If you’re not, here’s an introduction, in her own words: Hi, I’m Felicia Day. I’m an actor. That quirky chick in that one science fiction show? You know the one I’m talking about. I’m never on the…
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I don’t remember everything from college. I don’t remember the dates when certain novels were published, or what all the different literary criticism terms are, or how to read Middle English anymore. But today I remembered the name of a feminist poet whose writing I enjoyed—Adrienne Rich. In briefly perusing articles published about her following…
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Cover image via. Caution: There’s a spoiler below. My husband made me cry because of Wonder Woman. Don’t worry, they were happy tears. We saw Wonder Woman this afternoon, and were both blown away. Not only was it a great story with great acting and awesome fight scenes and explosions that make all good superhero movies worthwhile,…
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Cover image via. Who doesn’t love a good, mindless Buzzfeed quiz? At worst it’ll eat up a few minutes as you’re waiting for your Starbucks order. At best, you’ll get a killer book suggestion. It was through a Buzzfeed quiz that I discovered Uprooted by Naomi Novik. It was something like, “Pretend to Write a Book…
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OOC stands for “out of character.” This blog isn’t a fitness or food blog, but I need to write about this experience, and by god I’m going to use my blog to do it. I’ve been feeling pretty down about my weight and body image recently. I completed my fourth half marathon a week and…
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Cover image via. I had always heard Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale was a disconcerting dystopian novel. Nothing encouraged me to pick it up, though. It was simply a book written before I was born about some hypothetical “What if.” And then Donald Trump was elected president, a man who multiple women have accused of sexual assault,…
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Cover image via. I was born in 1989, which means I grew up watching Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers and was a die hard fan. I don’t know anyone I grew up with who wasn’t a Power Rangers fan, because all kids are Power Rangers fans. Not all kids may be Might Morphin’ fans, but since some iteration…
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Cover image (and a more comprehensive review) via. As an introduction to Zadie Smith, Swing Time may not have been the best choice. While I did enjoy the novel, Goodreads comments tell me it’s not as good as her earlier White Teeth or On Beauty. That said, as a standalone novel without the comparison to Smith’s other works, I…
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Cover image via. When I started listening to NPR a few years ago, I never thought there would be a day where I just had to turn it off because I couldn’t bear to hear one more horrible thing about what’s happening in our country. I never thought I would go on Facebook and Twitter…
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