Yellow Spiral Notebook

Sundry Notes & Miscellany

  • Cheap Haircut, Happy Day

    Cheap Haircut, Happy Day

        For months I’ve been really sick of my long hair – what a pain it was, no longer a match for my face or my life in general, really. At 48, I’m not doing that thing I see some middle-lifers do when they panic and start trying to look younger in ever more […]

    Anne Alexander

    August 30, 2018
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  • Syllabus

    Syllabus

    I recently discovered a creative nonfiction writing syllabus from a college class taught by David Foster Wallace. In it, he stated, among other things: “…This does not, however, mean that an essayist’s main goal is simply to “share” or “express herself” or whatever feel-good term you might have got taught in high school. In the […]

    Anne Alexander

    August 26, 2018
    Uncategorized
  • Debut: What Am I Doing Here?

    Debut: What Am I Doing Here?

      I keep hearing that blogs are dead, which means it’s the perfect time for me to start one. Here are a few reasons why: Knowing that this personal blog will exist on the bottom of the ocean floor in the murky depths of the internet where like 99 percent of blogs go to die […]

    Anne Alexander

    August 26, 2018
    Uncategorized
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