My phone and I are very compatible. My phone is an iPhone 4 with two previous owners one of which was a four-year-old. I am a white girl born in 1988. We are both getting old. We are both slow. Apparently. After learning that I have an iPhone 4 people often ask me if it […]
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The drawbridge
I have two routes for riding my bike to work. Both begin with leaving my house and taking the bike path on Woodward. For route one I turn left on Flushing and after a block or so I turn right on Johnson which I take until it Ts at Manhattan. Option two is to take […]
Love
Here’s how it happened: When I was nineteen I broke up with my boyfriend on his birthday. I’ve been single ever since. Curses aside, I’m not really that interested in how I got here. Although some people like to make a deal out of it. I recently dated a guy who said to me, “You’re […]
I leave the light on for when I get home
Taking inspiration from a song, I have started thinking of my past and future selves as totally different people than my present self. Following this logic, I think about the things that I do for myself as things that I am doing for my future self (a different person). And I think about things that […]
Coffee
I love coffee. I love that it is warm. I love that it is bitter because it forces me to really taste it, not like sweet things which I don’t really taste I just stuff my face while trying to figure out where and how I will get my next sweet thing. I like black […]
A poem
For the men* in my life who tell me how to be a better person, thanks, but please stop. *Except for, I guess, my manager. And if I specifically ask for advice from you. And Dad.
The year of books
2017. Sorry I’m still talking about it. But what I really want to talk about in terms of 2017 is that I read a lot of books. Thirty-five, in fact, which is the most I’ve ever read in a year and I’d like to congratulate myself. Sorry if it sounds like I’m bragging but, I don’t […]
Be subversive whenever possible unless you are hungry in Long Island in which case I recommend the bacon egg and cheese sandwich from a Speedway gas station
A few months ago I read a book by Jessa Crispin called Why I Am Not a Feminist: a Feminist Manifesto. It made me mad. Crispin is critical of everyone in her book. She hates on stay-at-home moms and successful single ladies. She criticizes women who “shop for over-priced blueberries.” Then she condemns the woman […]
Wait where am I again?
So what have I been up to since January? Well I went to some protests (so many crowds), signed some internet petitions (do those even do anything?), scolded some people (inappropriate), got scolded (karma), got sick (should have seen that coming), got some supplements at Whole Foods (#thingswhitepeoplelike) and got better (but it might have […]
Creating a second class citizen
I don’t really know where to start with this one. I guess with Kalief Browder who spent three years on Rikers Island, an infamous New York City prison, for nothing. I mean, really, for nothing. Kalief was accused at the age of sixteen of stealing a man’s backpack. He said he was not guilty and he […]
Anne Foster 