Author Archives: Quinn Kess

Quinn is a late twenty-something Hufflepuff currently living in the suburbs of Hartford, Connecticut. She has worn many hats in her life, from retail monkey to park ranger to campaign worker, and is currently helping out at the Connecticut General Assembly. In her free time, she sings and corrals kids and arranges music for her local choir. When she's not working, she is followed around by Administrative Daleks, bidding her to ADMINISTRATE.

Please Call Your Mother!

Before I go any further, I want to wish every mother in the world – present, future, and (whether by love or paperwork) adopted, a very happy Mother’s Day. The world would not be what it is without you all. Thank you for everything you have done and everything you will do. Now, if you [...]

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I Was a Boy Scout Once… And a Brownie

When I was little, I was so jealous of the kids who got to wear their scout uniforms to school. Oh, man. All of the patches that they could earn for learning all kinds of things were so fascinating to me, not to mention selling cookies and getting to go camping. Eventually, I wore my [...]

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Spend Every Weekend at the Renaissance Faire

Sometimes I feel like a superhero. No, hear me out, really. By day, I’m an excitable clerk at a state legislature, but by night, I’m a gamer. Yes, I admit it. I come home, pull out my video game player, and run Link around the Water temple, trying to remember which water level I need [...]

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You’ve Got to Bash In Minds

State Government has been getting a bit of a bad rap lately. From bills trying to define when life starts to regulations on who should have or pay for birth control or pills to enhance guys’… performance, there have been some really odd things trying to go through legislatures. That’s not everything, though. There have [...]

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Thinking I Can Do Better Than That

I have always adored Abigail Adams. In a world of quiet women, she spoke up to her husband, brazenly reminding him to “remember the ladies” in the Declaration of Independence. In fact, she pointed out that: If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and [...]

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One Nation Under the New Media

Whoo. There’s a lot going on lately, isn’t there? Wait. You don’t know what’s going on? Well, let’s see. First, the shooter who terrorized Norway was declared sane, North Korea is building a rocket, and the European Court of Human Rights has declared that an accused terrorist in Britain can be sent to the United [...]

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We Do What We Must Because We Can

Quinn talks about the health care reform and what it actually means in plan English.

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With a Little Guts and Lots of Glitter

I’ve always been a lover of beauty pageants. They’ve always been one of my guilty pleasures. There’s something about the glamour of the dresses that just draws me in. I must admit, though, I’m more Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality than a true pageant contestant, bumbling along on my own merry way, but still wanting [...]

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It Tastes the Same If you Close Your Eyes

Close your eyes. Ok, don’t close them, you’re reading my words, but just sit back and pretend I’m talking to you for a moment. You’re running out of options, you’re in a big city, you’re trying to find that one last crumb of food. Sure, most of us haven’t been there, but I’m sure we [...]

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One Moment of Knowing That Full-up Feeling

Quinn talks about the hunger epidemic in America, and what you can do to help.

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