the clumsiest girl alive

Clumsiness Is Not Cute

October 6, 2011

Romantic comedies and Disney have told us so many lies and given us so many misguided expectations that I could easily dedicate an entire blog to breaking these struggles down one by one. Suffice it to say that reality is thoroughly disappointing. I am slapped in the face with the inaccuracy of one particular lie [...]

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Things that are challenging: walking.

March 8, 2011

Sometimes it makes a lot of sense to go back and tell a not-so-recent story without provocation. I’m not just talking about how you’re telling a current story and then it makes you think of another one. There is a distinction between exploiting past stories for blog filler and stories that are somehow significant to [...]

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Annual Catastrophic Snow Interaction Complete. Can it be spring yet?

February 10, 2011

We are approaching mid-February. This is the time when the light at the end of the tunnel begins to peek through and I have hope that maybe the snow and cold won’t actually last forever and maybe sunshine and happiness will return to the earth. The tragedy of this month, of course, is that this [...]

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why I am not a real person but, in fact, a cartoon character

May 19, 2010

One day I was sitting at work telling a long story about the ridiculous thing that happened to me on my way to work that day and I realized that this is what I do basically every single day.  I’m not really sure what the story was on that particular day – I think it [...]

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