Katie Eisenberg’s Famous Battle Cries: “Malpractice Makes Perfect”

This is the latest in Katie Eisenberg’s Famous Battle Cries of Medieval Germany (And Other Stuff I’m Not Qualified to Talk About). To go to the column page, please click here. Note: No one in this story is innocent, but their names have been changed, anyway. The program was called “Explorations,” which makes the whole […]

Katie Eisenberg’s Famous Battle Cries: “Spotted”

This is the latest in Katie Eisenberg’s Famous Battle Cries of Medieval Germany (And Other Stuff I’m Not Qualified to Talk About). To go to the column page, please click here. At that point, I helped my mother look for a dress. (“Where’d she lose it?” Ha! Ha! I’m sorry, I disgust myself sometimes.) I […]

Katie Eisenberg’s Famous Battle Cries: “No, God Bless You”

This is the latest in Katie Eisenberg’s Famous Battle Cries of Medieval Germany (And Other Stuff I’m Not Qualified to Talk About). To go to the column page, please click here. When I was a kid, or just more of a kid than I am now (or maybe less, depending on how you look at […]

Katie Eisenberg’s Famous Battle Cries: “‘I Haven’t Taken Leave of My Senses; I’ve Come to Them'”

This morning, I slapped my coffeemaker upside the head. Don’t give me that look. It was being difficult. And I wasn’t in a childish enough mood to pretend that it was a dragon (as I’ll often do when it starts steaming and sputtering, even though we both know that it’s just for show, that it’s […]

Katie Eisenberg’s Famous Battle Cries: “Which Nobody Can Deny”

“When I die, I want -” Woah woah woah. Hold the phone, mom. Let’s talk about the fact that we’re celebrating your birthday, and you just said the words “When I die.” She kept talking, of course, because I didn’t actually interrupt her. That being said, I didn’t necessarily keep listening, though I did hear something […]