I was much like Ms. Brooks, and I was really lucky to have teachers like she did (and end up on the AP track like she did). But even then, ten to fifteen years ago, I saw that there was a big difference between what we learned and what the rest of our classmates walked [...]
I was under the tragic spell of the South, which you’ve either felt or haven’t. In my case it was acute because, having grown up in Indiana with a Yankee father, a child exile from Kentucky roots of which I was overly proud, I’d long been aware of a nowhereness to my life. Others wouldn’t [...]
30 Before 30: Take vitamins every day for a month (7/30) Go to the gym 5 days a week for three months (0/60) My goal every day is to take a multivitamin and calcium. So far, so good. I want to add fish oil into the routine, but that’s not as easy to throw into [...]
(Video not safe for work, because of the swears.) Dear lazy national activists: “The state of Tennessee” isn’t trying to make it illegal for teachers and other school officials to acknowledge the existence of homosexuality. One Republican state senator is. In fact, this isn’t even the only bill he submitted this year that would serve [...]
Or, perhaps, just in need of laying off the brownies from Sweet 16th. Or both: The nurse at the doctor’s office, while filling our your file, asks you how many times you’ve been pregnant and how many pregnancies have you carried to term, and looks surprised when you tell her you’ve never been pregnant. Ugh.
30 Before 30: Take vitamins every day for a month (0/30) Go to the gym 5 days a week for three months (0/60) Like clockwork, just when I start to feel recovered enough from my seasonal allergies to hit the gym, they flare up with a vengeance, and the added routine of decongestants and antihistamines [...]
30 Before 30: Read one book/fortnight (6/31) The Toothpaste for Dinner website kept yelling at me to read this book. It’s not literature, but it’s not fluff, either. It’s hilarious and sad and poignant and irreverent. And it’s less than $5 on the Kindle.