No, we probably can’t travel backward through time (forward is another story). But we’d all like to see a brachiosaurus, wouldn’t we?
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Why I Can’t Stop Watching Dr. Who
Regeneration. The idea that our lives are a series of evolving incarnations should be familiar to anyone who’s lived past childhood. The idea that those incarnations might become UNRECOGNIZABLE to us, especially as we age, should be familiar to anyone who’s working on the second half of life.
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Why the Song That Inspires Me Most Is From Frozen 2
To say that I identify with Elsa as “Show Yourself” begins is a monumental understatement.
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Have Yourself A Very Boy Band Christmas
I’m just a girl, standing in front of a blog, asking you to consider adding a boy band to your celebrations of the birth of Christ.
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3 Things to Know About Redheaded History
If you don’t end up picking up a copy, at least you can be nicer to the redheads in your life, okay? We’ve been going through it for most of human history.
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Backstreet Boys and Concert Bros
Some of my warmest memories are of the overwhelming female energy of 2010s BSB concerts, when we’d all aged out of competing with one another but not out of knowing the songs off of the German import album.
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In Defense of the Lost Finale
Since I last watched Lost, I’ve moved into what Richard Rohr calls the second half of life mentality, in which anyone claiming to have tidy spiritual answers to anything makes me very squinty. Very squinty indeed.
That’s a good place to be for a Lost finale.
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3 Nonfiction Books to Read This Spring
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3 Fiction Books to Read This Spring
Spring break just ended around here, which means I caught up on a little readingContinue reading
Why You Might Be Too Comfortable
I’m a big fan of comfort. Take right now, for instance. I am sitting inContinue reading