What to Expect When You’re Divesting
I said in my last post that I would write about divesting from Bank of America. I am here to deliver. I had never really thought about where my money goes when ...
Author: Lindsey Halsell
What Do We Want? Divestment
I had never gone to a protest before, until last Saturday. Things being what they are, I went to my second rally in the same week. Yesterday, I went to a “...
Blogging Through the Anger
I’m not an angry person. At least, I don’t think of myself that way. Some of my family members flare up with white-hot rage, a pyroclasticflow of ma...
2017: What Am I Doing?
It turns out that I blogged not at all this year. I was too busy doing everything else. Even though everyone around me was asking “Is 2016 the worst year ...
2016: The Year in Books
I read 43 books this year. It’s not a lot compared to last year’s 71, but it was a full year. Page count: 16,413, or 59% of what I read last year. L...
2015: The Year in Books
I made it through 71 books this year. It’s not as many as last year, but still highly respectable. Page Count: around 27,128, based on statistics from Lib...
2016: The Year Ahead
As is my end-of-year custom, I am looking at whether I met my goals for 2015 and considering goals for 2016. I like to set goals for the year because they seem ...
Derby Life: Bird Style
I last wrote about roller derby after bird try-outs. Because I’m the kind of woman who leaves you hanging for four months, I am only now coming back to writing ...
Icelandic Update, or Is It Really an Update If I Haven’t Told You Before Now?
Here’s the thing: I decided to start learning Icelandic in January of this year. I had every intention of writing about the process. As even a cursory gla...
Things I’ve Been Meaning to Blog About: Roller Derby
I have been meaning to blog about roller derby for about two months now. Or maybe three months. In any case, this is the blog post about roller derby. Yesterday...