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Category Archives: language
Proof That I Cannot Write A Valentine
I sat down yesterday to write about Valentine’s Day, and this happened. Perhaps another day, I will sit down to write about heartbreak, and a bubblegum pop lyric will erupt. Who knows? This is still not finished, but I’m “airing … Continue reading
Posted in Kim Hannigan, language, Poetry, Writer
Tagged language, Poetry, Valentine's Day
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High Time to Skip the Pleasantries
First, I watched the entire 19 minutes and 17 seconds of Michelle Wolf’s speech. Clearly that was something that the vast majority of the people talking about it did not do. Then, just to be clear, I checked the most … Continue reading
Posted in feminism, Freedom of the press, Kim Hannigan, language, racism, religion, Satire
Tagged feminism, Michelle Wolf, Satire
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A Butter Dish, Cats, and Mr. Updike
I ate a piece of salt-rising toast today and forgot to set the cover back on the butter dish. We have a charming teal green cow-shaped butter dish, so for an hour or two the cow reclined next to the … Continue reading
Losing God
There is no date set in stone here. While my ecstatic adolescent diaries noted every reaffirmation of faith, every rededicating of my life, every hearing of a call to serve God that rocked my young life, I never wrote down … Continue reading
Posted in feminism, Kim Hannigan, language, religion
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What We Call Things, Now
Today is a gorgeous mid-autumn day — the bluest of skies, warm sunlight, fresh breezes through the drying leaves. In short, a perfect day. A perfect Indian summer day. And that name passes through my thoughts swift as an eel, … Continue reading
