A Wrinkle in Time (and its sequels, A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet) featured the first fictional protagonist I found who I wholly identified with: the bespectacled, brave, brilliant, mousy-haired Meg Murry. Meg made smart cool.
Normalization of Worldwide Standard of Beauty
Normalization of Worldwide Standard of Beauty
Discuss. Luis Acosta/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images (in today’s New York Times)
the tomboy streak
the tomboy streak
I greased my baseball glove today.It was like something long-dead returning to life, the ash-grey gone golden beneath my fingers. That magical scent—sand and sunshine—rose up from everywhere, heady and thick, and the leather seemed to turn warm from the inside.I fit my fingers in their places, and felt whole. Can’t wait to get out there and toss a ball around.
The clothes make the man, but the women make the clothes.
The clothes make the man, but the women make the clothes.
In my last post, I promised a movie review, and delivered a tangent. You only might get the movie review today, but I’m entering it through a tangent, and bonus book review or two. My friend Emily had the most religious upbringing of anyone I know. This is in part because Floridian black Baptists and Irish Catholics were vying for her soul.
