You Play the Girl
The feminist essay collections seem to keep coming and I love it! Is it fair to say that some of …
Category Archives: Essays
Cultivating an Ecological Conscience
I’ve been teasing you long enough with quotes from the essay collection Cultivating an Ecological Conscience by Frederick L. Kirschenmann, …
Tell Me How It Ends
Last year I read Valeria Luiselli’s strange but enjoyable novel The Story of My Teeth so when I learned she …
Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman
I liked Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West so much I told a co-worker about it today. …
We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s wonderful little nugget of a book We Should All Be Feminists is based on a TEDx presentation …
The Small Heart of Things
What a quiet, lovely book is The Small Heart of Things: Being at Home in a Beckoning World by Julian …
Notes From a Vacation
One week of vacation down, one more to go. What have I been doing? Waldo and Dickens over there give …
Browsings
I have enjoyed Michale Dirda’s writing for a very long time. I even got to see him speak once and …
Weekend Thoughts and Doings
I’ve been thinking about the terrorist attacks in Paris all weekend. It breaks my heart, all this hatred in the …
The Art of Daring
Why is it the books I love the most are the hardest to write about? It can’t be only because …
