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The Only Three Forms of Hemingway I Can Tolerate.

Bradley Cooper and I have one thing in common: we both threw A Farewell to Arms across the room when we finished it. OK, it was Cooper’s character from Silver Linings Playbook, but still. I’ve tried to like Hemingway. I tried hard enough to finish A Farewell to Arms, even though with every turn of theContinue reading “The Only Three Forms of Hemingway I Can Tolerate.”

C is for Chopin: The Awakening and Why Fiction Matters

One of those embarrassing pictures of my youth held hostage by the Internet featured The Awakening. My senior year of high school, I posted a series of selfies (before selfies were cool, of course) of my reaction to Kate Chopin’s classic to that early social network, Friendster. Mildly pleased at first, then bored, then scandalizedContinue reading “C is for Chopin: The Awakening and Why Fiction Matters”

Handlettering on a Budget: Affordable Tools to Start Your New Hobby

Handlettering can seem like an expensive hobby—but it doesn’t have to be! Here are basic, affordable tools to help you get started without busting your wallet!

DIY Chalkboard Canvas in 6 Easy Steps

In the winter of 2012, I was in my second year of living alone–my family and fiance were 300 miles away in Dallas while I was working in Lubbock–and at the height of a stressful year of wedding planning. By that time, I had learned to love living alone, but I still craved time withContinue reading “DIY Chalkboard Canvas in 6 Easy Steps”