Welcome to the shitshow. — me, pretty much every day of my life Déjà vu A few days ago I received an invitation to a conference at Columbia University in December. Even though I obviously sent out an application, I was rather shocked by this reply. Never in a million years had
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Female & childfree by choice. Dear me!
Listening to the episode "Choosing to live child-free" of the Guardian's What would a feminist do? podcast recently, host Jessica Valenti and her guests, authors Megan Daum and Danielle Henderson talked about a topic that is very dear to me even though I never struggled with it: never wanting kids and therefore, at 30+,
Reading cozy mysteries — escapism at its best (for me)
Thou shalt not be mistaken… From what I’ve written in some of the blog post before, one may assume I am a (more or less) sophisticated reader thanks to my academic ventures (*cough*) in the field of comparative literature. Well, sometimes I am. Depending on my mood, my ADHD, the lunar phase, and the
Shame on me: an update on how I blame everything that doesn’t work on my bullet journal…
Welcome to an update on how my bullet journal is not working for me... For a few months now I've been trying to make the concept of bullet journaling happen for me and so far it did not work out as I had hoped. More often than not I simply don't have it with