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Clubbing

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.–Groucho Marx I am not good at book clubs. It has taken me several years – and several book clubs – to realize that I’m not great at reading a book because someone else told me to and then to have fun discussingContinue reading “Clubbing”

Posted byhmMarch 28, 2022Posted inacademia, book club, booksLeave a comment on Clubbing

Time Passes

Time passes, and usually we change and grow as it does, but sometimes we don’t. A couple of weeks ago, Facebook served me up a memory in the form of a post I’d made on that day in 2013. Here’s what I thought: My 2013 self sounds like an asshole. Here’s what I also thought:Continue reading “Time Passes”

Posted byhmMarch 3, 2018March 3, 2018Posted inacademia, adult, backstory, identity, memory, time, Uncategorized, writing lifeLeave a comment on Time Passes

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  • On readingApril 14, 2022
    A friend recently asked me why I read books. It’s a deceptively simple question, and my knee-jerk response was equally simple: to learn about the world around me. But I think the real reasons I read books are much deeper than that. I read to learn about the world around me, yes, but also aboutContinue reading "On reading"
  • ClubbingMarch 28, 2022
    I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.–Groucho Marx I am not good at book clubs. It has taken me several years – and several book clubs – to realize that I’m not great at reading a book because someone else told me to and then to have fun discussingContinue reading "Clubbing"
  • Sugar, Butter, FlourFebruary 18, 2022
    I started reading cookbooks for fun because Lauren Ko’s Pieometry caught my eye on a browsing shelf at our local library. It is a beautiful volume full of gorgeous pies. For some reason, it hadn’t previously occurred to me that you could check cookbooks out from the library, but all of a sudden doing soContinue reading "Sugar, Butter, Flour"
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