Jennifer Nolan
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Jennifer Nolan
@jnolan.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English at NC State ||Print culture & periodical studies with emphasis on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jazz Age illustration & magazines, and popular modernism
(Ostensibly, my youngest daughter’s middle name is Alice because that was my grandmother’s middle name and her paternal grandmother’s first name, but I can’t say this Alice - or Carroll’s at any rate - wasn’t a factor too)
July 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Yes, she knows to sit on my left, but there are only 4 of us. OTOH, my mother came from a family of 5 children, 3 of whom were lefties, so holiday dinners always involved a complex seating chart!
June 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I, a righty, didn’t learn about left-handed scissors until my left-handed daughter was 4, and she spend the week after I bought her a pair delightedly using them on anything I’d let her!
June 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM