Wait + Hope...

Sometimes I come across a song and book pairing that just capture each other so well it's startling!  It's like they were designed b...

As of today, I am done with class indefinitely.  Ah!!  While there will be many, many more end-of-grad school posts, today I wanted to s...

I'm three weeks away from finishing grad school - aaaah! I firmly believe mental work only gets done with the help of dancing.  And I&...

Here is my thesis as a word cloud! It's full title is... "It’s Own Sense of Verisimilitude": The Lizzie Bennet Diarie...

[Sarah Atkinson | Marigold 8 ]

Hey! So last month I got to present a paper at the national conference for the Pop Culture Association / American Culture Association (the...

Are All the Break-Ups in Your Poems Real? BY  AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL If by real you mean as real as a shark tooth stuck in your hee...

The reading this week went well.  There were a dozen or so readers with a diverse array of genres and topics--one colleague performed two p...

Well... this will be a first...:)

I recently finished watching a show that, at the outset, is highly out of character for me.  It would require the most severe parental guida...

So... this happened.  O.O I'm gonna go eat some chocolate and tell some dementors to beat it with the encouragement of th...

No wonder we dream of flying when hearts float incessant on rise... fall... But leave your head  awhile; allow yourself the present weight o...

Hello and Happy New Year!  I know I'm quite behind on this but, dear blog-reader, please don't feel like it's you.  In the thr...

I've recounted this story for a couple of different people lately, decided I should actually write it down, and now is actually the perf...

So I'm writing a term paper for my film noir class on fashion, the femme fatale, and women in the workforce during the post-war period....

Je ne sais pas que dire...  Seulement, ce soir, mon cœur est avec Paris. 

Lately, Friday nights seem to lead me to interviews on Lady Gaga...and then 2 am happens.  But they've been incredibly restorative.  I g...