January 25, 2012
At age 8, I was a gamer chick. Those were the days of Mario Bros., Paperboy and Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out! The last show in the TGIF lineup hours past, I jabbed at the controller until midnight struck, sweat trickling from my pint-sized brow as I dueled with Bowser. I gamed by daylight, too, my dad […]
April 5, 2011
I’m a sponge. An absorbent, holey, squishy square. That sounds cute, doesn’t it? Except that we all know what a sponge does. It cleans up dirty stuff, sucks it into its little pores. And even when you wring it out, some of the crap stays in there. Yuck. How do I know I’m a sponge? […]
February 14, 2011
My boyfriend calls me “Jersey” as one of my nicknames. He started the first day we met, when I revealed my feistiness, no-bullshit attitude and truck-driver mouth. I’ve always been that way a little bit. It’s not just growing up in a state so often made fun of and shoved into the monstrous shadow of […]
March 8, 2010
I think it’s fair to say at this juncture that moving to the other side of the world, where you know no one save some friends of friends or people you’ve only talked to online, is one way to really figure out who you are. I talked a lot during last year’s summer of change […]
February 10, 2010
When I took my first trip overseas to England, Scotland and Wales 10 years ago, I was introduced to a delightful little card game called “asshole” (for those who don’t know the rules, click here), which I’m sure Askew World Order, who was also on that trip, will remember. I quickly became obsessed and wound up […]
December 15, 2009
There are few things that have been more elusive in my life than the ability to finish a crossword puzzle. I’ve been doing crossword puzzles since before high school, but I’ve probably only completed a dozen of them. I didn’t buy the newspaper when I lived in Philly, but my family does in Jersey, so […]
