October 2010

Use The Force

October 27, 2010

The best way, I find, to deal with existential angst, is to just throw yourself headlong into something completely overwhelming and avoid sleep and drink lots of coffee and talk really, really fast whoever approaches you about anything. (Hair stylist to me: “I love your hair color.” Me: “Oh yeah wow thank you no really because, you know, I like it, but not everybody does and it’s like platinum you know and it’s not everybody’s thing and I sometimes wonder about coloring it like red because I love red hair and I totally colored my hair red the whole time that I was in grad school except for like the last year or two because it just got to be too much you know and oh my god ROOTS right? and also my hair is really really thick but oh my god thanks do you really like it?“)

her bad dark side photobomb editionNot shown: The Force.

It’s Blissdom Canada week. That’s why I’m drinking a lot of coffee and totally not thinking about ANYTHING other than OH MY GOD BLISSDOM CANADA and random photobomb opportunities and, also, my hair.

Oh, and this stuff:

–> Tanner. I’m always thinking about Tanner. But so is this lady, and other wonderful cool people, and that makes my heart feel super happy. (Really. SO AWESOME.)

–> Dorkness on video. A vote for me is a vote for dork.

–> The guy who made this movie is a friend of mine. He is awesome. So’s his movie. (I wrote about it months ago, but it’s being released, like, next week, and the New York Times wrote about it, which means that the culture is catching on, but you can still say that you heard it here first.)

–> You could make your own movie and win money. Easy, right? (Disclosure: I’m a spokesperson for this. I made my own videos. I SUCK at making videos.) (See above re: DORK.)

–> KINDERBEASTS.

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On Writing And Chaos And Other Precious Things

October 26, 2010

Here’s something about being a writer who documents her life online: there’s this compulsion to make the narrative coherent, to enforce a kind of literary flow, to work toward having the whole of the story – whatever that means – fall together in a way that makes some kind of sense. And yet the process [...]

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Her Bad Monsters

October 25, 2010

I’m not saying that my children are dastardly little life-sucking beast-monsters who spread unholy terror lo these long autumn nights, it’s just that… yeah, I am saying that.

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This Is Tanner

October 22, 2010

This is Tanner: Tanner is my nephew. He’s dying. There aren’t any words that can adequately describe how hard that is. That said, I do try to describe it, sometimes. And I try to share a little something of his life and struggle and his family’s life and struggle and all the beauty and the [...]

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Her Hand I Held

October 21, 2010

When my sister was very young, she appointed herself my protector. It didn’t matter that she was two years younger: I was a shy, ashmatic child, gangling of limb and totally lacking in physical grace, whereas she was athletic and boisterous and tending toward ferociousness, and those qualities more than made up for our age [...]

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We Don’t Need Another Hero

October 19, 2010

I love this boy. I can’t save this boy. Nor can I save his mother’s heart from breaking. Nor can I save my own. But I have to let go of this idea that I should be able to save anybody. I have to let go of the idea that anything short of wholesale rescue, [...]

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If Wishes Were Horses, I Wouldn’t Need Air Canada

October 15, 2010

This weekend I’m flying out west to visit Tanner and family, and to say that my anticipation is bittersweet is understatement in the extreme. I am, of course, thrilled to be seeing them, and to be seeing him, and, because I am making this trip to get things started on Tanner’s Biggest Wish Project, there’s [...]

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On Freaks And Geeks And Princesses, And Why Lady Gaga Is More Like Jesus Than You Think

October 13, 2010

Last week, Emilia went to school in a Snow White costume. She wore it with striped leggings and her hot pink skate shoes, the ones with the sparkly laces, and also a baseball cap. “I’m not really a princess, Mommy,” she informed me, “I just like this dress.” Which summarizes her approach to fashion more [...]

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Make A Joyful Noise

October 11, 2010

Giving thanks today, because, seriously, life is really pretty awesome, notwithstanding the bullshit that we sometimes get distracted by, and also because someone else is making the turkey. And because I have the luxury of measuring daily happinesses against the amounts of random bullshit that I need to cope with and whether or not someone [...]

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The Temptation Of Eve

October 8, 2010

Emilia contemplates an apple* in the abandoned orchard at the Samuel Wilmot Nature Area. From the looks of it, prelapsarian fruit** was probably not all that impressive.*** *I know, Eve was probably tempted by a fig, and not an apple, but the apple has kind of stuck in Western versions of the story, and there [...]

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