Taylor Swift

November 7, 2024

“All I know of hate is that it will never beat the love out of me”*

Despite the hope that I carried with me, I knew the results before the polls even closed. That uneasy feeling settled in my bones early Tuesday morning, filling my belly with anxiety. I held it there. I tried to brush it off as paranoia. Yet, I recognized this feeling. It was the same one that Continue reading

Personal

2024 Presidential Election, Andrea Gibson, Bon Iver, Books, Exile, Facebook, Kamala Harris, LGBTQIA+, Poetry, Social Media, Taylor Swift, Twitter
February 17, 2015

Shaun vs. the New Bed

So it’s been a long time since Dad let me borrow his computer and type my own post. Well, let’s face it. I’m not technically allowed to type my own posts because in everyone’s mind I’m just this almost-three-year-old ball of awesome. Either way, there a few things that I want to say before typing Continue reading

Posts By Shaun

All Access, Google Play, Music, Shaun, Taylor Swift
January 29, 2014

Things My Dad Doesn’t Want You to Know, But I’m Going to Tell You Anyhow: A Memoir by Shaun Damien

So you pretty much know a lot about Dad already, but there are some things you don’t know about him. Not yet, anyway. See, as an almost-two-year-old, I’ve seen a lot of things that he hides from the public eye. For instance, do you know he wrote that entire last post while listening to a Continue reading

Posts By Shaun

Diet, Exercise, Taylor Swift, Weight
May 7, 2013

“And I’ll come running just to do it again…”

You are the last drink I never should have drunk You are the body hidden in the trunk You are the habit I can’t seem to kick You are my secrets on the front page every week You are the car I never should have bought You are the train I never should have caught Continue reading

Stream of Consciousness

Barnes & Noble, Binx, Cover, Eclipse, Jeanna, Miranda, Nancy Sinatra, Pulp, Song, Starbucks, Taylor Swift

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A student of the Mexican American Studies and the Gender & Women Studies graduate programs. I dabble in fiction and poetry writing, book reviews, and commentary. I am a library assistant in the special collections and archives department, where I maintain and preserve our photograph and rare book collections.

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Taylor Swift

“All I know of hate is that it will never beat the love out of me”*

Shaun vs. the New Bed

Things My Dad Doesn’t Want You to Know, But I’m Going to Tell You Anyhow: A Memoir by Shaun Damien

“And I’ll come running just to do it again…”