2022 was not my most productive knitting year in terms of the number of objects made, but I did complete my most ambitious knitted undertaking to date: a full-on traditional Guernsey sweater for my husband. It took a full year, from swatch to finished object, and the sleeves were nearly an unqualified disaster. But the... Continue Reading →
Happy autumnal equinox, my friends! This—this darkening, cooling-off, hunkering-down season—is my favorite time of the year, not least because my favorite holiday is just around the corner. I don't know about y'all but I am very ready to say goodbye to summer this year and move into this season of transitions and spooks and baked... Continue Reading →
August is here again, bringing that familiar bittersweet feeling of endings and beginnings as we try to soak up every last bit of summer possible before school starts again and the days start getting shorter and colder. For the first time since I was four years old, I will not spend August preparing for a... Continue Reading →
Today is my 30th birthday. OOF. That feels weird to write — I'm 30. Thirty. I am no longer in my twenties. I took stock yesterday, the last day of my twenties. I have a few extra gray hairs these days, for which I blame the dissertation, but some of it is certainly my family's... Continue Reading →
Well folks, it's done! Last month, I successfully defended my dissertation, and the experience was way more fun than I had expected it to be. Last week, I finished the minor revisions requested by my committee and submitted the final version of the dissertation to the Graduate College (final deposit is anticlimactic, despite its finality).... Continue Reading →
It's been a hot minute since I posted here! It's been a very busy 3 months behind the scenes: in addition to starting a full-time job as a managing editor (hello, semi-decent pay and retirement fund), I've been putting the finishing touches on my dissertation and preparing for my defense. But first, a super fun... Continue Reading →
Tis the season...to escape holiday madness with a book that takes you far outside your own world! We're back with more ratings and reviews of recently published retellings and reimagining of Greek myths (yes, all Greek this time). The reviews are more mixed this time around, including one DNF. *gasp* The Women of Troy: A... Continue Reading →
Two years ago, I offered some gift ideas to brighten any tired, broke grad student's holiday. But what if you are the tired, broke grad student? How can you possibly keep up with the expectation to purchase gifts for all your family and friends when you barely have any slush in your monthly budget? I feel... Continue Reading →
If you've been here a while, then you know that I am a bona fide Madeline Miller fangirl. I've written two posts about Miller's bestselling retellings of classical myths, Circe and The Song of Achilles, both of which I cannot recommend highly enough. But Miller is not the only one reimagining ancient stories from new... Continue Reading →
If you have ever studied ancient history or Greek myth, then you know that both are melodramatic, violent, and raunchy AF. Roman political history during the civil wars of the 40s and 30s BCE reads like a damn soap opera. The Iliad and the Odyssey have sex and violence out the wazoo. These stories were... Continue Reading →
Medea Palatina 