memes – Letters to Rachel

Could It Have Been You?

Dearest Rachel – For all that you into the color purple for most of our life together (for a while while you were at college, it seemed that you favored unicorns and rainbows, but somewhere along the line – I can’t recall when or why – you centered on the one single color, for someContinue reading “Could It Have Been You?”

I’d Tell You Everything

Dearest Rachel – Yesterday really had me going through my news feed rather than trying to finish a topic that I couldn’t resolve in that moment. In the process, though, I ran across a tweet – okay, a retweet of a retweet – that really made me stop and think about what I would doContinue reading “I’d Tell You Everything”

The False Dichotomy of the Heroic Binary

Dearest Rachel – I know that has to sound to you like an absurdly pretentious title; you’d think it belongs on some psych or sociology major’s graduate thesis. I realize that I sometimes refer to these letters to you as ‘essays,’ but this is a little over-the-top. And that’s more than a fair assessment. TheContinue reading “The False Dichotomy of the Heroic Binary”