I picture myself at age eight, in a stiff wooden church pew, the family in a row starting with my slumped over father at the aisle, and ending with myself daydreaming. I see a heaven up in the clouds with blue sky and gold everywhere and there’s the gates that look a lot like a… View more
Remember the nineties? I do, I graduated from high school in 1993, a year that was marked by a stiff rise in what had recently been labeled ‘grunge’ music. Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ was released in 1991 and had taken over MTV along with Sonic Youth, Stone Temple Pilots, and Pearl Jam. Movies like ‘Singles’ the… View more
I always wanted to be a rocker chick. I can still see the ones I knew in my youth, the black bottomed tennis shoes, feathered hair, and jean jackets loaded with patches from various shows. Joan Jett seemed like she had the world figured out, and Lita Ford looked like she could tear your head… View more
Yes, yes, I’m a big boring fan of feminist literature. There’s a part of me that could have been a gender studies major in college, but I wasn’t, I was an English major who got way into Virginia Woolf. It surprised me too. On the canon of what to read when it comes to women’s… View more
There’s a narrative in history and in literature that relinquishes the soul of a bored woman. The woman who has settled into marriage, kids, and finds herself uninteresting. When my husband was in the Army and deployed to Iraq it was in the faces of the young women left behind. For a woman in her… View more