Locusts and Wild Honey

When people ask about my sister’s wedding, they inevitably have a lot of questions about the Amish. She’s not Amish herself, but I guess having a wedding in the Amish country is kind of like playing one on TV. What quickly emerges from people’s questions is that they are deeply confused about who the Amish [...]

I’m one of those people who never, ever gets sick. I’ve been working at my current company for 3.5 years and in that time I’ve used exactly one sick day. Jealous? Don’t be. It’s a fair world indeed, my friends. I may be the healthiest person you know, but my teeth are basically falling out [...]

I’m not very fashionable. In fact, I wear a dress almost every single day for two reasons:

1) As a very wee person, I look stumpy in pants. STUMPY.

2) “One and done.” As in, pull one thing over your head and done. The dress already matches itself so it’s hard to mess up.

I wouldn’t say I’m [...]

Where: Happy place

When: Monday evening

Why: After cramming all weekend long (and I do mean every second of both days) and breaking down in hysterical tears on Sunday night, I rose early on Monday and survived a three-hour, closed-book, waking-nightmare of a statistics final. And this means WE SHALL NEVER SPEAK OF THIS AWKWARD PERIOD IN [...]

I am not a particularly photogenic person. Well, that’s putting it nicely. The truth is, I take about one good photo for every 10 bad ones. In fact recently my dad was trying to put a picture of me in his phone contacts, but every single shot he took, he’d kind of shake his head [...]

Let’s talk about how I spent Sunday, shall we? First I went to a birthday brunch in honor of a friend. That part was awesome. But then, as the party was breaking up, I slumped away, blaming my statistics homework.

Now that probably seems like the kind of thing you might say in good faith, but [...]