I checked out This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein from the library in the fall. I renewed it the maximum amount of times which was three. Still unfinished I returned it to the library. I checked it out again. I renewed it three more times. I incurred late fees. And then […]
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Happy day to mothers, women, grown daughters (yes that’s me, sorry for making this holiday about me)
I think there should be a word for when a woman reaches the age at which her mother birthed her. Some ideas: Mumday. Momage. Maternal return. Materological age. Matriarchable. (omg please help.) To be that age is to live in a palindrome, time folded in half, where stories are told backwards and forwards from the […]
Frenemy
It’s a story that’s been told and a story that’s been lived: those in power pit the poor against the poor. We get distracted fighting over scraps and we forget that we’re actually in this together. Win or lose. Either we’re all about to get really good health care. Or we’re all about to be […]
The weird thing about dictatorships
You get blog posts all week. Why? Because I just remembered that we live under a fascist government now. (Yeah sometimes I forget.) Things that happen in dictatorships:1. Children get lost, go unaccounted for, die in government custody. 2. The current regime uses their power to delegitimize the people who previously held power. 3. The […]
No matter how big or how small
Several weeks ago (idk how long but it was snowing out) late on a Sunday night I decided to take a train to a bus to get home. I hadn’t taken that particular route home before so I ended up waiting at a bus stop on a strange, dark corner of Brooklyn in the snow […]
Things I smell while riding my bike
Day: Saturday April 13Time: 5:30am-8amLocation: Ridgewood, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, NolitaWeather: Light rain, heavy rain, drizzle, mist, dry, mistSmells: wet, exhaust, bread, exhaust, shit, warm butter, bacon egg and cheese, sour garbage, weed, coffee, exhaust, sugary croissants, lakes, spring, Southern France, cigarettes, exhaust
Grad school pros and cons
Pros: People will respect me and think I’m a serious person. Maybe I can get a job that will allow me to save money. I like learning. Cons: By the time I finish grad school the world might already be ending, all the jobs will be gone, and I will end up having wasted several […]
Wrangle
I work sometimes for a bike collective. We have several cargo bikes that we use for delivery jobs around the city. Bikes are stored in Greenpoint or the Upper East Side. Or at a garage in South Brooklyn. Or at someone’s house. When someone from the collective uses a bike for work or otherwise we […]
I <3 naps
I found this website called The Nap Ministry and I think it’s great. (Image from the nap ministry.)
Happy Ash Wednesday
I went to Catholic schools for twelve years but I never fasted. All I knew was that people used to fast. Once upon a time it was custom for Catholics to fast from midnight Sunday until mass the next morning. In 1964 Pope Paul VI changed this to a one hour fast before receiving communion. […]
Anne Foster 