Oprah, hurry the F up.

I won’t be blogging during the holiday because I am taking a break, like people should do over a holiday. I’m only going to eat a lot. And read a lot. And sit around a lot. Because I never do. And because I’ve spent lots of time in the last few weeks doing this: And […]

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You would see the biggest gift would be from me…

For my entire childhood, I lived on the wrong side of town. In hindsight I can see that the invisible dividing line through our town was a bunch of bologna, but in junior high I was obsessed with being the coolest and therefore mortified by the location of our house and its general design. Now, […]

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The red fern grew in Japan, which is not really in China.

When I arrived home from my around-the-world adventure last year, I felt like I knew what to do with my life. I’d been ashamed in Cambodia that I knew little about the holocaust there even though it happened in my very lifetime. Assuming other Americans my age were in a similar boat, I felt like […]

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3six5 is a creative way to write 365

The 3six5 is a project that records the happenings of a different person’s day every day. 365 days from 365 points of view– a collective recap of 2010. I’ve known my day was coming up for some time now. What pressure! It’s like a time capsule and my day, November 8th, would be my statement […]

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News & history for aliens. Jurg.

It’s much easier to appreciate how funny humans truly are if we try to explain our everyday goings on to those who don’t understand. Like aliens. If I had some aliens over for dinner and tried to explain human culture, they’d surely burst with laughter. Or just say, ‘jurrrrg.’ I don’t know. This is how […]

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