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  • It’s been two years and three hours to the minute since Iwoke up for school. It was inApril. I woke up at approximately 6:10AM as a successful and industrious student at Princeton University,working to get …

  • Notes again...

    For all those --what? two?!-- people who subscribe to this blog... You've probably noticed that the author has not been churning out much lately. This is an effect that can be directly traced to the fact that she committ…

  • I hosted an Xbox party yesterday evening and it was really more of a throw-people-over-the-couch-and-skateboard-on-concrete-basement-floors sort of party. Some people played Halo 3, Guitar Hero, at which I rock, and DDR,…

  • Jane, Don't You Remember?

    The starving man does not snub a warm, sterile meal, no matter the fixings or taste. The homeless man does not decide the windows of a heated apartment are too dirty, even if they've not been washed for years. The invali…

  • See Jane Run...

    "It's awfully high, little girl. You still sure you can make it?" The gangly sixth-grader, awkward with his recently-accquired height, might as well have pushed me off of the top of the jungle gym right there. His taunti…

  • "Jane is quiet, isn't she?"

    Mrs., (she insisted on this part,) Frippilary made it a point to impose herself upon our household every Sunday afternoon. Mother outdid herself with tea and finger sandwiches, wore her most attractive sundress, and made…

  • Jane Q. Rules the World

    The most beautiful things in the world are certainly in the eye of the beholder. Very few items are agreed upon as beautiful by all. Jack sees beauty in a rusting jungle gym and a freshly mulched playground. My mother se…

  • Rules the World: Jane Does contd.

    My image was that of a statue in that mirror's depths. I barely blinked. The geese and the wind and my mother and the parasol and pen wiper and the clouds lived and breathed and moved in reverse directions and I stood th…

  • Rules the World: Jane Does

    This yard sale was different from the last. My mother is the yard sale sort, and only she could find six different ones in the same day. She inspected a red parasol and weighed its worth against a purple pen wiper. Only …

  • Rules the World: I am Jane

    "Fifty-one... Fifty-two... Fifty-three..." I sat on the concrete steps that led to my house's front door, clad in sweater, gloves, and knitted hat, and stared at the big oak tree whose leaves glowed like flames that domi…