Too Hick To Be Square

Something-er than ever

Which me needs to like me?

Mar 1 • 

Lydia

February 2023

painting the mural...whatever color you fancy

In 2022 I was hired to assist Rochester artist and business owner Cassandra Buck to paint a mural on the outside of a restroom in Kutzky Park. I came…

Feb 15, 2023 • 

Lydia

Rochester Post-Bulletin artist feature

In 2018 I interned at the Rochester Post-Bulletin as a journalist. In 2022, one of my friends and former colleagues from the paper reach out to…

Feb 15, 2023 • 

Lydia

April 2022

Launching Myself Into the Out

On one of the sunny days that pops up like a break in the clouds between the rain, wind, and persistent 30-degree temps of a fitful Minnesota spring, I…

Apr 23, 2022 • 

Lydia

April 2021

Welcome to the resistance, we have earrings

No one asked, but here’s why I wear so much jewelry. When I was a junior in college, I participated in a mock interview activity the campus career…

Apr 4, 2021 • 

Lydia

March 2021

Objectivity is a ghost.

An overheard conversation between two coworkers recently got me thinking about objectivity and how the supremacy of objective truth is a fantasy we…

Mar 6, 2021 • 

Lydia

February 2021

big feelings big feelings and rubber bands

*I wrote this shortly after the new year and didn’t post it because I didn’t have the energy to reread and edit what I had written in my notes app…

Feb 20, 2021 • 

Lydia

September 2020

I'm too young to remember 9/11

In my family, I’m the cutoff point between those who remember 9/11 and those who don’t. In September of 2001, I was about to turn 4. Apparently that’s…

Sep 13, 2020 • 

Lydia

I'm still a brand new human being

In a few weeks I turn 23. I am, for all intents and purposes, an adult. At the very least, all the signs are pointing in that direction. Driving…

Sep 4, 2020 • 

Lydia

April 2020

A Double Handful of Chicks in a Takeout Container

I recently had a prophetic dream involving chickens. Buckle up, you'll want to hear this. In my dream, I am moving chickens from inside a house (why…

Apr 27, 2020 • 

Lydia

February 2019

All I really need is a better can opener

I've started a new thing this year called "I'm going to cook a decent portion of my own food." As a college student living in a dorm, a little…

Feb 7, 2019 • 

Lydia

January 2019

Cheapskates don't buy happiness: A mildly depressing essay experiment.

I've discovered that I like being around people who spend money. Like, people who spend money freely and buy things because they like them. People who…

Jan 6, 2019 • 

Lydia