fallon's blog

The last month has been hectic around here. My younger sister, as I have already ranted, is pregnant and has begun having complications. She was put on complete bed rest for a while and is now on modified bed rest. While the complete bed rest was going on, Alo ended up in the hospital in respiratory distress from RSV. So, it's been insane.  Read More »

On a recent excursion to the bookstore, I ran across a book that is a little outside of the norm. It sounded like an interesting change from normal reading habits, so I grabbed it. Rabbit Heart by Colleen Hitchcock is the fictional story of Nicollette Caron and it is most definitely an unusual tale.  Read More »

So, everyone has been plotting and planning their resolutions for next year over the last few days. Apparently, it's the thing to do... ring in the New Year by resolving to do something. I quite happily have no resolutions. It's not necessarily because there isn't anything I want to do. It's more that there is nothing I want to do enough to obsess over a resolution for the next year.  Read More »

As I have said probably a million and a half times since joining ProgressiveU, I write alot. And in the course of that writing, I go through massive loads of paper. I'm not kidding. I have stacks of notebooks full of my scratchy scrawls. I should be ashamed of myself, but in truth I'm not.  Read More »

I freaking love the stickers on bananas. Seriously. Every since we were kids, my younger sister and I would sneak off a sticker and apply it to the forehead. We would then commence to walk around the store, smiling and giggling like idiots.  Read More »

Now that the Fall Blogging for Progress Scholarship Contest has officially ended (on December 15th at noon PST for those of you who didn't know) and the holidays (yes, holidays) have come upon us, things have slowed down at ProgressiveU. Many of you addicts are wondering what to do next.  Read More »

I haven't blogged anything political or even semi interesting to most of the ProgressiveU population in quite a while. Life has been insane as sometimes happens. But, I'm feeling half normal this week...  Read More »

Growing up, I loved the holiday season (yes holiday season... as in the period from Thanksgiving in late November until after the New Year). People actually seemed... nicer around this time of year. Everyone always seemed to be smiling and laughing and just generally having a good time.  Read More »