Kelly
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | graduate student/TA |
| Location | Tucson, AZ, United States |
| Introduction | Running through my neighborhood, I found an epic hopscotch game—yellow and blue and pink and orange stretching 343 squares into the distance, each with a distinct shape and carefully designated number. As I ran along side it, I thought about the time and care involved in such monumental hopscotch, but mostly I thought about the thrill of that first square, kneeling down and looking out at never-ending sidewalk, wondering and delighting over how far it might go. I ran up to Tucson Boulevard and then turned around to pass by the hopscotch again. Weaving around the chalk lines, I decided that it was time for me to start writing again, to start writing and to mean it. About every six months I grab my Ferris Bueller diary and make a solemn vow to write on a regular basis; I write something that seems stirring and important, and then I forget about it for another six months. It’s never really that stirring or important, but it’s the act, the practice, the moment of kneeling down on the sidewalk that I miss, and maybe even need, in my life. |
| Interests | Running, basketball, frolicking in the desert, chasing Milo around the coffee table, talking politics with Abe Froman, swimming |
| Favorite books | East of Eden, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Lying, High Fidelity, The Stupids Step Out (and Die and Have a Ball), The Shipping News, Leaves of Grass, Cat's Cradle,... |
Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?
Emphatically, yes.