Category Archives: Questions

I’m not ready…

Posted on February 1, 2011 by

I’m not ready to be friends with you yet, my dear ex-boyfriend. I really want to be friends with you again, just for a moment, so that we can talk about the corgis in The King’s Speech. Did you freak out when you … Continue reading →

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On asking the big questions.

Posted on November 5, 2010 by

“First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart! And also: You are tired. You are true of heart!” “Now: I have never been so tired. You have: No idea how tired I am. I truly hope: You … Continue reading →

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My favorite quotation from my favorite zine.

Posted on November 5, 2010 by

“The commuter traffic on I-5 is a long smear of headlights and taillights that stretches as far as I can see. And I realize it’s not a small world, no matter what people say. It’s a big world, way too … Continue reading →

Posted in Desire, Favorite Posts, Life lessons, Love, Questions, Quotations, Recognition, Striving, Truth | 2 Comments

I don’t kiss and tell, but I’ll plan-to-kiss… and tell!

Posted on October 9, 2010 by

Just got invited to a real life makeout party by the guy who writes this lovely blog! I wanted said parties to exist, but I didn’t believe that they really did. Hooray for new friends. And making out. Amen.

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On who I may or may not be thinking about.

Posted on September 30, 2010 by

Fall has arrived, and I’ve got a case of the all-of-a-sudden-I-miss-everyones. Ryan Adams has this song, “Miss Sunflower,” from an unreleased album, Suicide Handbook, and it’s been hitting the spot with this weather and this mood. The whole song is … Continue reading →

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This is the kind of advice I can get behind.

Posted on August 28, 2010 by

If you had to give one piece of advice to people in their twenties, what would it be? To go to a bookstore and buy ten books of poetry and read them each five times. Why? Because the truth is … Continue reading →

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On what this season does to my heart, or, the autumn of our disconnect.

Posted on August 27, 2010 by

Dear Nick Craig, I miss you. I drove to Iowa City this weekend, and on the way home, I saw the exit for Forest City. I thought about driving into your hometown to look for you, to maybe try to … Continue reading →

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On getting married to grow up.

Posted on August 26, 2010 by

Michael Vincent Miller, PhD, a couples therapist and the author of Intimate Terrorism, says it it just this act—of facing a crisis and finding a way to move on—that defines the beginning of true marriage, so different in quality from … Continue reading →

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On likeliness and impossibility. Or, this is why we went to college.

Posted on August 11, 2010 by

“And I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your … Continue reading →

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On the things I think about while I’m ironing.

Posted on August 1, 2010 by

Paradox: I couldn’t have gotten to this point without having dated him, but I’m so sorry I wasn’t at this point while I was dating him. Currently dreaming about: Taking the train to Portland. Currently wondering: How many times will … Continue reading →

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