I like the image above, which was the first one to show in a Google image search for “one chance to live today,” even though I don’t understand what the water or hand mean. Maybe is an upper-body version of “You can step into the same stream only once.” In any case, you can click…
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237. Why It’s Okay to Be Not Okay
For the second time, I’ve come up with a title for my blog post only to find out there’s already a television show with the same title. In this case, the show is South Korean, but I assure you that the title on the screenshot/link above, in case you can’t read it, translates to the…
236. Why Take Mulligans
I don’t play golf. My husband tried to teach me, about a quarter of a century ago, shortly after we moved to a campus that sits in the middle of a golf course, but a love of golfing didn’t take. I do, however, love the idea of taking a mulligan. At so many points in…
235. Why Name It
Often, I’ll start thinking about a phrase I want to use as a title for one of my posts and end up realizing I have more to say than what led me to the idea in the first place. Sometimes, several ideas show me how they’re connected and form into a unified point. With today’s…
NetGalley Review of Baby Bank
title: Baby Bank author: Sarah Robinson publisher: books by Sarah Robinson publication date: September 19, 2023 pages: 320 peppers: 3 (on this scale) warnings: talk of nausea talk of past sexual assault and maternal death summary: Mila, current lawyer and up-and-coming stand-up comic decides to use an app to find a donor so that she can become…
NetGalley Review of Will They or Won’t They
title: Will They or Won’t They author: Ava Wilder publisher: Dell publication date: June 27, 2023 pages: 384 peppers: 3 (on this scale) warnings: divorced parents mental illness panic attack drinking/hangovers summary: Nine years ago, Lilah and Shane got cast together on a television show because of their amazing chemistry. Unable to control said spark at…
234. Why Your Words Don’t Matter
I’ve devoted a lot of years of my life to teaching students that their words matter. As an English teacher, I help students expand their vocabularies and learn to produce and organize words carefully. I spent more time than I would have liked during my first year as a dean both educating and punishing people…
233. Why Our Missing Hearts
If you’ve met me, you’ve heard me talk about my love of romance novels. I don’t generally read any speculative fiction, but loving a happily-ever-after doesn’t mean I don’t find fascinating the “what if?” trope of speculative fiction. Since I first read it in middle school, I’ve loved that Ray Bradbury short story about stepping…
232. Why Wear Clean Underwear
Despite what the text in the photo above implies, I learned the expression “semper ubi sub ubi” when I took Latin in high school a few decades ago. If you click on the photo, you’ll see the website from which the I took the image; the post there seems super helpful if you want to…
Book Review of Planes, Trains, and All the Feels
title: Planes, Trains, and All the Feels author: Livy Hart publisher: Entangled Trade publication date: May 23, 2023 pages: 337 peppers: 3 of 5 (on this scale) warnings: alcohol dependency diabetes mental health issues car accident divorce summary: Cassie Bliss needs to get to her perfect sister’s wedding in California. Luke Carlisle is traveling across the…