Category: Wonderings

• September 13, 2012

  On eBooks

  “I will stick to paper books until they’ve been outlawed for paper consumption. Then I’ll go into black-market paper books and visit the seedy side of town, trading books like drugs, passed from trench coat to messenger bag, hidden inside hollowed out lap-top cases, whole novels committed to memory – like in Fahrenheit 451- lest…
• September 13, 2012

  Minnie Mouse Goes to a Wedding

  This is what I think I should be wearing to a wedding this Saturday. The outfit is just PERFECT but only with Minnie Mouse ears. No one understands, and several people have in fact FORBIDDEN me from wearing them. To me, mouse ears are just another accessory, like any other fascinator. I am clearly ahead of…
• September 12, 2012

  I’m a Bad Person

  I’m such a one for shopping. No matter what I’m doing, I seem to be able to acquire. Today I was writing a This Week We Love… column about socks and within the hour I’d bought silver collar tips, dalmatian creepers and a pair of sparkly lilac  ankle socks. How do I do it?!
• September 12, 2012

  Caitlin Moran on Letting Go

  Epic quote from one of my big Girl Heroes: The trick is, and there’s a little bit of heartbreak, you have to just give up on the idea of being a princess. You have to give up on the idea of being fabulous. My kind of base position on existence is that you just have…
• September 12, 2012

  To a Commonplace Notebook

  There’s nothing commonplace here. This commonplace notebook, bound in ashy card and lined with blurred red. It’s not so commonplace at all. Is the mud commonplace, that puts forth new shoots of Spring, and feeds the hungry mouths that stoop to seek their sustenance? No, not so commonplace. And here is the sea, awash with…