Month: February 2010

  • Unsent Love Letters: It’s Different at Sixteen.

    I have to admit I almost stopped after the last entry of my unsent love letters. Maybe it’s because I can see how awkward fifteen was, with the repeated unrequited love, and my completely obvious lack of experience. I was able to laugh at myself. But sixteen. I don’t know. I kind of still remember…

  • currently reading…

    Rudolph Delson: Maynard and Jennica Malcolm Gladwell: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Elizabeth Gilbert: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage Kathryn Stockett: The Help Phil Rosenthal: You’re Lucky You’re Funny: How Life Becomes a Sitcom

  • “When all you wanted was to be wanted…”

    I’m sad/relieved to tell you that we are rounding out the end of my essays/letters/diary entries from my fifteenth year. Actually, there are a few I didn’t share with you, mostly because they are way too listy or factual. I found a twelve-page essay about the time my Gifted class went to the Houston Fine…

  • a few of these i’m trying to shift from “should read” to “did read.”

    Imogen Edwards-Jones: Hotel Babylon David Cross: I Drink for a Reason Pamela Ribon: Going in Circles (copyedits) Margaret A. Salinger: Dream Catcher: A Memoir Malcolm Gladwell: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Kate Chopin: The Awakening John Irving: Setting Free the Bears

  • 100 Bottles of Rain on My Soul, 100 Bottles of Rain! [5 Feb 91]

    Someone recently asked me if I make up any portion of Little Pam’s letters. I told her that, sadly, I do not. The look of shock and pity on her face… I won’t forget that. So it’s probably a good thing I’ve gotten you accustomed to what I was like at fifteen before I found…

  • moving up

    Whenever someone from my non-derby life starts to ask me questions about my derby life, I inevitably immediately disappoint them. Quick aside: I feel the need to explain that once you join roller derby your life splits right in two. You have the life you know, the one with your friends and family and loved…