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If we were having coffee (and a donut, let’s be honest) today, I’d have a weird smorgasbord of things to tell you. Like…  …Being a mom is weird. Having this human life that you’re supposed to take care of and mold is a bizarre thing. I think all the time as I’m taking care of […]

Coffee Dates

Let’s Have Coffee.

My first year of college, I took an adolescent literature class. For our final, we each had to give a presentation of a popular YA book. The quietest girl in class, someone I’d spoken only a handful of words to, was the last one to present. She had been given The Book Thief, a book […]

Uncategorized

Speak it: This is Not Okay.

When You Find Out the World is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments by Kelly Oxford Plot: Kelly Oxford likes to blow up the Internet. Whether it is with the kind of tweets that led Rolling Stone to name her one of the Funniest People on Twitter, or with pictures of her hilariously adorable family […]

Book Reviews

Books I Read in July (And Whether or Not You Should Read Them).

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