Author Archives: Meg
Ghosts of Night School Past
Boston’s early voting began at 11:00 this morning, so I was in line outside the polling station at 10:40. We’d requested mail-in ballots, but they mysteriously haven’t arrived, and I’m not taking chances with the fake dropboxes and the mysteriously … Continue reading
Reply Hazy, Try Again.
It’s true. Our Wonderful Zodiac Fortune-Telling Cards cannot accurately predict the events of 2020. We hope you’ll still have fun telling your friends’ fortunes.
Imposter Syndrome In Covid Times
Some of the complete insanity with online classes this year has actually been good for my impostor syndrome. Instead of worrying that I’m secretly no good at my job, that I was hired by accident, everyone else is breezing through … Continue reading
Things I Love About This Picture
These are taken over a few years, and you can tell that by my friends’ clothes and my hairstyles. But my outfits? Apparently I wear my space scarf and purple cardigan to every class day, and I wear my BostonFIG … Continue reading
Library Reopening
Our library reopened, but just for appointments to pick up holds outside. Naturally I had 4 bags of books waiting for me. I requested most of them in early spring, so now I have almost no idea why I wanted … Continue reading
About That 94%
Posting a link here to the 94% comorbidities story, because I dream of a future in which a reader might say “What? What 94% thing?” in a distant-history kind of way, and not in a distracted-by-even-worse-news-tomorrow way. Still not gonna … Continue reading
Only Our Destiny | ManyBooks
I have a new book review over on ManyBooks: Only Our Destiny by A. G. Russo takes readers through the tragedies and setbacks of one Italian family from the small fishing village of Punto Roccioso. Although the family and the town … Continue reading
Coronavirus Articles I’m Tired of Rereading
1. This person who said coronavirus was fake got coronavirus and died. I don’t want to read this as a snarky tragedy-in-two-acts quoting their social media conspiracies and then their covid obit. I don’t want to read this as an … Continue reading
The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known
WorkBro ran Zoom trivia the other night, and he made a category called “Literature” which was just posting one-star Amazon reviews and asking us to identify which classic novel was being reviewed. Obviously, I got them all, plus the bonus … Continue reading
Nonstarter
Today is June first, and my calendar alert reminded me to do my Free Donut Day class warmups. Every summer, I do a little activity with a coffee menu, a little counter vocabulary, and a roleplay conversation with directions to … Continue reading
