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    Here's A Recipe For Mango-Lime Meringue Pie Because Everything Sucks
    • Jan 29, 2021
    • 8 min

    Here's A Recipe For Mango-Lime Meringue Pie Because Everything Sucks

    "Wait a minute," you, a reasonable person, might say, "this doesn't look like a 2020 roundup. Isn't it, like, February? Don't you owe us...
    The Best Children's Books That  I (A Professional Book Person) Read in 2020
    • Dec 29, 2020
    • 15 min

    The Best Children's Books That I (A Professional Book Person) Read in 2020

    Time - what is it, really? Where does it go? What does it mean? If I'm supposed to get this plus three other posts done the next two days...
    The Manly Gift Guide (For Men)
    • Nov 27, 2020
    • 14 min

    The Manly Gift Guide (For Men)

    If you've ever had a man you've loved and tried to shop for, you know one thing: gift guides for men are bad. I'm not sure WHY they're so...
    My Favorite Purchases From 2019
    • Jan 2, 2020
    • 10 min

    My Favorite Purchases From 2019

    It feels a bit gauche to admit, because it was such a bad year for humanity as a whole, but I had a truly lovely 2019. Pretty much every...
    The Best Music of 2019
    • Dec 29, 2019
    • 17 min

    The Best Music of 2019

    Welcome to post-Christmas but pre-New Year, the time where about 50% of us have to go to work in spite of no work being done, and for a...
    The 2019 Book Gift Guide (According to Me, a Professional Book Person)
    • Dec 17, 2019
    • 10 min

    The 2019 Book Gift Guide (According to Me, a Professional Book Person)

    The biggest change for me in 2019 (besides having a fancy new website, obviously) is that I'm a librarian now! I've been working as a...
    The Wes Anderson Gift Guide for 2019
    • Dec 9, 2019
    • 2 min

    The Wes Anderson Gift Guide for 2019

    Way back in Ye Olde Yesteryear of... like two years ago, I didn't have a site, I had a Wordpress blog. On that Wordpress blog, the very...
    The Top Five Things I Bought in 2018
    • Dec 28, 2018
    • 15 min

    The Top Five Things I Bought in 2018

    2018 has been a weird year. I’m not talking geopolitically for the world at large (though I could be talking geopolitically for the world...
    Stuff I Can’t Live Without
    • Apr 21, 2018
    • 11 min

    Stuff I Can’t Live Without

    Everyone, I have an exciting announcement: I’ve fallen in love. Not with an actual person,  don’t be silly. That would require a human...
    The Gift Guide For People Who Don’t Want Gifts – Part Three: Everything Else
    • Dec 23, 2017
    • 16 min

    The Gift Guide For People Who Don’t Want Gifts – Part Three: Everything Else

    Don’t look at me like that. I know it’s too late. Do you think I wanted to be finding a proctor for my stats final and then taking it...
    The Gift Guide For People Who Don’t Want Gifts – Part Two: Books
    • Dec 21, 2017
    • 12 min

    The Gift Guide For People Who Don’t Want Gifts – Part Two: Books

    I’m going to start by saying this – you have every right to be mad at me. Here I was promising you so many holiday gift ideas, and then...
    The Gift Guide For People Who Don’t Want Gifts – Part One : Food
    • Dec 6, 2017
    • 12 min

    The Gift Guide For People Who Don’t Want Gifts – Part One : Food

    You have that person in your life. You know the one – you love them and they’re great until it’s their birthday, or the holidays, or your...
    The Smartest Girl in the Room Runs for President
    • Oct 8, 2016
    • 14 min

    The Smartest Girl in the Room Runs for President

    Because they were boring, I remember very little of high school English classes, and even less of The Great Gatsby. Most of what I...
    How To Talk To People On Dating Apps (And In Real Life)
    • Mar 28, 2016
    • 3 min

    How To Talk To People On Dating Apps (And In Real Life)

    Holy shit, you’ve been matched with someone on a dating app! Or maybe it’s a dating site. Maybe you’re using a site that doesn’t have the...
    Nothing Says Chick-lit Like Filmy Nightgowns and Rape Jokes
    • Sep 18, 2009
    • 8 min

    Nothing Says Chick-lit Like Filmy Nightgowns and Rape Jokes

    Once a year I engage in what I like to refer to as Charlie Bucket-ism. For those of you not familiar with Charlie Bucket because you’re...

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