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I'm a twentysomething MFA grad enjoying life in a state of flux, dreaming of Paris and San Francisco while loving the warm summer evenings in North Carolina. I'm a little irreverent, a little mercurial, with an uncanny knack for putting my foot in my mouth.
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Tag Archives: holidays
Happy Black Friday
A new vacuum (that actually works–imagine that). A couple sweaters. And leopard-print heels. That’s better.
The First Thanksgiving
Tomorrow will be the first Thanksgiving we’ve spent without seeing any family. We had plans to spend Thanksgiving in Florida and Christmas in North Carolina but at the last minute things got switched up and so we find ourselves in North Carolina, all by our lonesomes. Everyone’s going out of town, it seems. Or having [...]
Mr. Thanksgiving Gets Leprosy
I don’t know how it happened. He seemed fine last year. I’ve had him for a few years, but last year was the first I remembered him and actually put some salt in him in time for Thanksgiving dinner. This year, though, I remembered in plenty of time to be using him for a whole [...]


A Different Kind of Thanksgiving