Soppho

This weekend is the harvest festival at Y Chromosome’s family farm. For me, this primarily means that I will be spending my day tomorrow moving tables, putting up signs, cutting up fruit, and drinking three times my weight in hot apple cider. All in all, a good way to spend your Saturday.
W.: My goal for [...]

I was an avid fan of Highlights Magazine and kids’ puzzle activities as a kid. The only place I had access to them before my sister got a subscription was at our dentist’s office, so we never put up a fuss when we had to go visit good old Dr. Adams. Really. The nerdiness of [...]

It’s that time of year: when the traffic gets bad again, finding seats at a restaurant is impossible, and I once more have to slalom my way down the stairs of my apartment building, weaving between used condoms, spilled beer, and puddles of half-digested Ramen noodles spiked with stomach acid.
That’s right: the students are back [...]

Last month, Y Chrome’s family expanded their business and they’ve been getting a lot of press for it. W., who gets every paper on this side of the Mississippi, brought me one I hadn’t seen yet, and we were reading it together.
Me: Oh my god. His aunt actually says,“We need to sell this stuff, sugar.” [...]

For the first 21 years of my life I lived in Connecticut. This, I suppose, makes me a Northerner, though I never would have thought to refer to myself that way until I moved to Virginia to attend graduate school four years ago. Really, even later than that. I went to school in a liberal [...]