When I get started on the name change thing, I really cannot be stopped. There was an article on Jezebel a few weeks ago titled “Keeping Your Name? Midwesterners are Judging You.” Here, take a peek: LiveScience reports that researchers noticed… Read more ›
I’m on Offbeat Bride today! Women keep their name for a variety of reasons. For some, it is a feminist decision that defies patriarchal norms that often come along with becoming a wife. For others, a name can reflect one’s… Read more ›
Since we’ve decided to buy a house in the suburbs… Wait. Did I mention that we actually decided this? If not, well, we did. We’ve been back and forth over the issue a lot, and since the economy seems to… Read more ›
Tim and I laugh a lot, so I figured I’d start sharing some of our funnier moments on here (instead of tumblr) for your enjoyment: Me: I’m reading about meal planning and wondering when you’re gonna clean the kitchen. Tim:… Read more ›
The first show I ever directed was Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. I was living in a small community, much different than the suburban sprawl where I grew up and the urban pulse of the city I frequented, so I found… Read more ›
Remember how I just told you all how busy I am right now and how I was starting to get things under control? Well, this weekend there was a fire in our apartment building. Everyone’s safe, and it wasn’t our… Read more ›
I don’t really want to come on here after being absent for over a week and complain about how busy I am. But OMG YOU GUYZ I AM SO BUSY! Most of it has to do with the fact that… Read more ›
Well, I just read this op-ed in the Chicago Tribune from a man who recently had to put his dog down. And I bawled my eyes out. Don’t click through unless you have Kleenex handy: For Frank was still young… Read more ›
Image from wikipedia.org If you follow me on my various social networks, you probably know that I’ve started a club at the high school where I teach just for girls. We meet every week and talk about issues in our society… Read more ›
I blogged about the importance of female friendships yesterday and then, about an hour later, so did Feministe! I’ve also been blessed with a handful of truly deep and transformative relationships with women — friendships that have carried on for… Read more ›
I was talking to my pal, Jillian, a few days ago, and she brought up an interesting point. The strongest structure is a triangle; with three legs, for example, a stool won’t wobble as it would with four, and it… Read more ›
Seriously, y’all, there are people out there who actually live without a television. After a few months of this numbing routine, we decided to get rid of our TV. It wasn’t a radical decision at the time. We just knew… Read more ›
This week, I have been on overload. You may have guessed by my absence here. Seriously, though, I’ve been doing too much. The way I see it, I have four separate things going on in my life: Blogging and writing… Read more ›
Tim and I had a conversation about money yesterday that didn’t involve yelling and screaming. I know, right? Exciting stuff. You may remember me writing about sharing money about a year and a half ago. In short, we decided to… Read more ›
Y’all might not know this about me, but I used to be a dancer. I took ballet classes from the tender age of 3 all the way through the age of 13. When I got older, I added more classes… Read more ›
According to The Huffington Post, cohabitation is a bad idea. “So what’s so wrong with living with your boyfriend or girlfriend? Let’s forget the studies pointing out the booze (cohabitors drink more), weight (they’re heavier) and happiness (they’re not quite… Read more ›
If you’ve been a good Chifem, you’ve been reading The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht! Hopefully you’re finished or almost there, because we are meeting on Sunday, January 22 (check the link for place and time) for an in-person discussion.… Read more ›
Not long ago, I was introduced to The Marriage Project at Diverge. It’s a wonderful set of interviews with women who are in modern marriages and relationships that I was fortunate enough to participate in, and I encourage you to… Read more ›
I fell in love with literature at a very young age. I loved books so much, I wanted to create them, because I wanted to give readers the same joy many authors had given me. Then, I grew up a… Read more ›
So I woke up today and went to check my blog stats and comments, as I usually do in the mornings, and found a foreboding white screen that said only: “Error establishing database connection.” As I went back to school… Read more ›