Wait + Hope...

Nerdy fun fact: Ok, Star Trek's Lieutenant Uhura is, of course, amazing!  [Saldana and Nichols] For a long time, there wasn...

This. This is glorious. This is outrageous. They talk about an embarrassment of riches? We are living it. I have often though...

Ahead of it's release, Relevant is streaming Gungor's latest album, One Wild Life: Soul .  It actually marks the beginning of a tril...

I've had a second paper accepted to a conference!  This November I'll get to present on the "Comparative Media" panel for ...

It has been an amazing year to be a fan of Benedict Cumberbatch (see Oscar Nomination), but for me this year has been especially amazing be...

"Dreams to dream... in the dark of the night When the world goes wrong I can still make it right I can see so far in my dreams, ...

This month marks the 100th anniversary of T.S. Eliot publishing "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"!  This poem is my absolute f...

"The first [romantic fantasy] can hit me anywhere, though it's most often when I'm watching television or I'm looking out t...

Aside from Star Wars , this is the film I'm most looking forward to in 2015.  And the trailer is finally here: I find this tragi...

"Sometimes the night was beautiful  Sometimes the sky was so far away  Sometimes it seemed to stoop so close  You could touch it but...

So if we've talked recently, Gilmore Girls has probably come up - I've fallen completely in love with it!! When I was in high sch...

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Ok, so it's not exact but, for our Dead Author Reading, this was my inspiration: And this, my execution: Best decision...

Set      backs Dear Spring, For a season of new life, why so many set backs?  Why the confusion and self-doubt?  To be honest, why al...

The peony gods had mercy.  I called around and was able to find a place nearby that at least had peonies incorporated in their bouquets. Hop...

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden ...

I've reached the point of the year in which I need  peonies.  Like, two weeks ago. Preferably I'd be watching the shoots grow, the...

"And I'm learning, so I'm leaving And even though I'm grieving, I'm still trying to find the meaning. Let loss r...

last weekend i went on an early birthday get away  with my two closest friends to seaside. cruising down Highway 101 with taylor swif...

I'M SO FREAKING EXCITED!!!!

I feel like a lot of my favorite web series have wrapped up or are on hiatus... But! I have at least one mainstay to see me through right no...

I hope you are having a mindful and grace-filled Holy Week... I wanted to share just a few things I've been meditating on--especially ...

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