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I Am My Own Wife: April 2013
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I Am My Own Wife. What if we were to unmoor wifehood from marriage? Friday, April 5, 2013. Can you see the queen in this picture? Just take a moment to look for her. She's gorgeously golden, largely beautiful, and hard at work laying eggs. This afternoon I spent a couple hours at the apiary on campus. I wore a smock with a hat-and-veil for protection, and I congratulated myself on not getting stung. Then on the drive home (not from my school, but from Mat's daycare! Do you love vegetables? I also taught ...
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I Am My Own Wife: January 2014
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I Am My Own Wife. What if we were to unmoor wifehood from marriage? Friday, January 10, 2014. I've been watching Bollywood movies on Netflix for the past couple of weeks. I cannot get through a single movie in a night, but that's neither here nor there. I've got a lot to catch up on; it's been a while. Here's what I logged this winter break (and still counting):. 2013 with Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone (both from Om Shanti Om. I, Me, aur Main. Briefly, I got on a John Abraham kick. Wouldn't you?
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I Am My Own Wife: Zucchini Cake (just another day in Russia)
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I Am My Own Wife. What if we were to unmoor wifehood from marriage? Tuesday, August 5, 2014. Zucchini Cake (just another day in Russia). After visiting a monastery yesterday, we went to a friend's house for lunch. This is Baba Zeena's backyard. It is FULL of gorgeous flowers and probably the best produce in the world. 3-year-old, not at all overwhelmed. Sunflowers, compost bin, rusty barrel. Cabbage patch with melons hanging in the background. Zucchini the size of the Russian spouse's forearm. The cake b...
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I Am My Own Wife: October 2013
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I Am My Own Wife. What if we were to unmoor wifehood from marriage? Wednesday, October 23, 2013. This morning, I'm in the kitchen putting lunches together for me and the kid, and I hear her yell from her crib, "MAMA! I WANT A BOOK! Of all the books on the floor of her room, this is the one she wanted. I love this kid. 28 months old, and already a dedicated reader with a taste for parody. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I wonder in what ways feminism and domesticity are compatible? View my complete profile.
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I Am My Own Wife: Good Morning Goon
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I Am My Own Wife. What if we were to unmoor wifehood from marriage? Wednesday, October 23, 2013. This morning, I'm in the kitchen putting lunches together for me and the kid, and I hear her yell from her crib, "MAMA! I WANT A BOOK! Of all the books on the floor of her room, this is the one she wanted. I love this kid. 28 months old, and already a dedicated reader with a taste for parody. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I wonder in what ways feminism and domesticity are compatible? A Dress A Day.
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I Am My Own Wife: September 2013
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I Am My Own Wife. What if we were to unmoor wifehood from marriage? Sunday, September 15, 2013. Baking Bread is as Hard as I Thought It Would Be. In a charmingly clear essay called "The Intentional Fallacy," which I am preparing to teach to my Literary Theory class this week, William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley wrote,. How does one judge a loaf of bread? Not as early as monks, but not as late as students. A morning more humid indoors than out. Seven or eight maybe, imperfections. In a church kitchen.
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I Am My Own Wife: Teaching the God of Small Things
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I Am My Own Wife. What if we were to unmoor wifehood from marriage? Monday, February 24, 2014. Teaching the God of Small Things. So they're pretty well-up on that), in addition to biographical information about Arundhati Roy. I am probably the last person to find out that the novel is loosely based on Roy's life, and that of her mother Mary Roy. We began to have a rich discussion of the significance of the History House and the allusions to Heart of Darkness. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Music Maj...
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I Am My Own Wife: Please Don't Buy My Daughter This Toy
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I Am My Own Wife. What if we were to unmoor wifehood from marriage? Friday, November 16, 2012. Please Don't Buy My Daughter This Toy. Every day one or more of my friends re-posts the link to this GoldieBlox video. On Facebook. My friends tend to be highly intelligent and typically very highly educated folks, which is why this affinity for girly blocks with ribbons puzzles me. This toy really. It comes with a book, because, as the designer informs us, girls like to read! Doesn't it look like it was super-...
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I Am My Own Wife: Just a quick little OMG
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I Am My Own Wife. What if we were to unmoor wifehood from marriage? Saturday, November 2, 2013. Just a quick little OMG. I did my first tweet ever for # AcWriMo. My kid is breaking the first of her 2-year molars (bottom left, and she's 2 1/2). We were thinking she was just "being TWO" but no, she's just "being TWO in pain." There is a difference. I have to believe that. Working on Marie Corelli always makes me happy. Because you're reading along and then you come to something like this:. Graduate Trainin...
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I Am My Own Wife: August 2014
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I Am My Own Wife. What if we were to unmoor wifehood from marriage? Tuesday, August 5, 2014. Zucchini Cake (just another day in Russia). After visiting a monastery yesterday, we went to a friend's house for lunch. This is Baba Zeena's backyard. It is FULL of gorgeous flowers and probably the best produce in the world. 3-year-old, not at all overwhelmed. Sunflowers, compost bin, rusty barrel. Cabbage patch with melons hanging in the background. Zucchini the size of the Russian spouse's forearm. The cake b...