Wicked: Part I NOTE: I’m assuming a fairly intermediate level of familiarity with the world of Oz, both original and Wicked. If the names and vocabulary are confusing, Google is…
This is how long I have been procrastinating on this update: the post was originally titled “I Love Jelly in the Fall.” Look, in my defense, it is a pain…
November in a nutshell: Sumayah went out on the same week as the U.S. election, this month sucked ass and I have not been anywhere near my best. I was…
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen NOTE: Shout-out to Ms. Kube, who used Mr. Collins’s proposal in a lesson contrasting two dramatically different literary proposals. I don’t remember much of tenth…
The Cartographers Peng Shepherd You’re off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be serious spoilers. We are all very familiar with the concept of a book that’s so…
First things first: civic duty over all. This is the first election I’ve voted early. Every other time I’ve left it till Election Day, but this year carries far more…
I DON’T CARE IF IT’S ONLY MID-OCTOBER MY SHOP IS SO READY FOR HALLOWEEN because if there’s one thing I’ve been doing with all my free time it’s sleeping and…
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood You’re off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be spoilers. Distance and adulthood did not help. I first read this book in high school,…
Happy October. It took me several hours and a nap (which, to be honest, ate up most of those hours) to figure out how to get my monitor to get…
And just like that, I’m out of a job. After six years with this company and nineteen years of scrambling over and over again for any kind of job at…