Last year, my friends and I participated in the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen (GISHWHES).
I came across a story today that just infuriated me! Continue Reading →
Well, it’s been a couple months now since I first got Bowie and the boy is really thriving! Continue Reading →
Well, I’ve done it again! I found another puppy to rescue and bring into my home! Continue Reading →
This year, I got to go to NOLA for Mardi Gras! And if I thought St. Patty’s Day was crazy/fun, Mardi Gras was 10 times better. Continue Reading →
Yesterday, I adopted two new babies, Iggy Pup and India. Continue Reading →
The iThemes Exchange team, which I’m a part of, met up in Chicago this week for some discussion on the future of Exchange but also for some time just to spend together as a team. Continue Reading →
Well, it’s finally happened! I found a house, I made and offer and I signed all the final papers today! It’s all mine!
This was my first ever trip to Louisianna! I was so excited to go. I went with the Ulmers, who have family (Mike’s dad, step-mom and brother) that lives right off of one of the parade routes. It was such a blast! Continue Reading →
We tend to play almost as much as we work at my job. The recent trend has been Quadcopters. Continue Reading →
Last night, I took Mom to her first concert ever. We drove up to Tulsa with Mike and Sarah to see Garth Brooks. Continue Reading →
So I’m at work and go to the bathroom. While in there, I hear a snapping sound.
I’m wearing a front clasp bra and that’s what that snapping sound was…the clasp.
I was doing some grocery shopping for my mom last night.
And as soon as I got out of the car to go into the store, my flip flop broke.
Pretty sure James Earl Jones is behind me in the dr’s waiting room. Certainly sounds like he is anyway.
Note: My mom is a caring, intelligent, wonderful woman, whom I am lucky to call a friend and love with all of my heart. That, however, is not the subject of this particular post. Continue Reading →
I recently wrote a post in which I went off on a tiny tangent about my definition of “feminist.” Since that wasn’t the true topic of my post, I said it was a topic for a separate post, which I’m writing now. Continue Reading →
I’ve heard Metallica on “Classic Rock” radio stations twice recently. Now I feel old…
I was scrolling through my Twitter feed today, when I came across this tweet:
Has the @WSJ been hacked by @TheOnion ? are they really telling women to concentrate on marriage instead of career? http://t.co/G6SPIXMcX1
— Christian Heilmann (@codepo8) February 14, 2014
I was intrigued, to say the least, and had to read it for myself. Part of me wishes I hadn’t. Continue Reading →
Note: I originally had a point to this post, but, somewhere along the line, I forgot what it was and it was just too cathartic to stop writing. Continue Reading →
The corner lot near our office had goats on it and we were told they were fainting goats! So we (the entire iThemes office) decided to go give them a scare. It took numerous attempts, but Chris Jean finally took one down! Continue Reading →
Critics often criticize Tolkien for the lack of women in his novels.
While, admittedly, there are not very many prominent women in his works, Tolkien does create his women in powerful and influential roles. Continue Reading →
The writings of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien have often been studied and compared, quite possibly because of the friendship the authors shared.
The friendship between Lewis and Tolkien began when they were both Oxford dons. Tolkien began a club among the literary faculty to read and study Icelandic and Norse literature. After about three years in their literary society, the men discovered a mutual love for Norse mythology. Continue Reading →
The role of women in literature, as in life, is continually shifting.
Many women of the nineteenth century, tired to “embrace the dominant middle-class Cult of True Womanhood by constructing a poetic voice that is pious, pure, submissive, and concerned with the domestic sphere” (Cane, 151). However, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a change began among women. Continue Reading →
The Chaucer Pilgrim uses the General Prologue to set the scene for his reader, starting by telling the reader of the season and setting. He begins by telling his readers of Zephirus blowing in the spring, new life growing in the fields and the birds singing in the trees. He continues on telling how the very season sets the idea of a pilgrimage into the hearts of palmers and other people of the day. The tale then moves into detailing each traveler making the pilgrimage that he is also making. As he wishes to make the reader aware of each in every person, he goes into great detail, telling of everything from head coverings to the ornaments worn by their horses. The Chaucer author is using this detailing for many purposes, such as foreshadowing the types of tales they will tell and helping to develop a relationship between reader and character. Chaucer also uses the details of his descriptions to explain the inner personality of his characters. By describing how they appear on the outside, the reader is able to picture the true character though the narrator refers to them as worthy. Continue Reading →