I cooked a lot — mashed potatoes, baked praline sweet potatoes, buttermilk cornbread, deep-dish apple pie — but I don't do food photography (everything looks disgusting no matter how hard I try), so you'll just have to trust me on that one.
Read MoreThe county I cover voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton, but nearly a third of precincts here also voted for Trump. Of those, not a single one voted for him by a margin of less than 51 percent. In most cases, the margin of victory was much higher.
Read MoreOne whole year of being Brandon’s wife.
Read MoreDealing with depression is exhausting and a lot of work and the problem, ultimately, is that even after you do all of the work and all of the dealing, it still never really goes away.
Read MoreSomeone yesterday asked, "What is it about seasons changing that creates such a strong feeling of sense memory?" It's a handful of things, I think - the shift in the air, the way deep breaths feel differently, the slow churn of the constellations overhead - but whatever the explanation, I feel that way too.
Read MoreI lived in New York for two years in my early 20s, during a time of tumult and heartbreak when I was, in retrospect, so very young, so very naive, and so very very fortunate.
Read MoreI am excited for football, but I am also scared — for my liver, for my sanity, for my marriage. This is the other burden of being a graduate of the University of Michigan, or at least one who's been paying attention to the football program for the past decade or so.
Read MoreOne of Brandon's college friends got married over the 4th of July weekend in the Midwest, so we seized the opportunity to escape the hellfires of the South and turned it into a long weekend on the lake.
Read MoreI stopped at the store to get a soda and somehow offended the mother of all wasps. That thing hung off my cheek by its stinger, flailing around for a good 10 seconds before dislodging itself and flying away. This is probably the wasp version of giving someone the finger. I AM TRAUMATIZED.
Read MoreMy iPod also died over the weekend, so basically I just have felt it was in my best interest not to blog or spend any unnecessary time on the internet. When the electronics start turning against you, you really just want to stay offline and read things on paper.
Read MoreLast night I dropped my brand-new iPhone in the toilet.
Read MoreA hodge-podge of ridiculousness, if we’re being honest.
Read MoreIn which I break my laptop, among other things.
Read MoreThe world bursting into color around me.
Read MoreThere was a big ol' explosion in downtown Greensboro last night.
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