Megan Frazer

The summer after college, while waiting to deploy for the Peace Corps, I lived at home and got a job driving a bright blue-green bus around to low-income neighborhoods in New Hampshire. My partner and I would read stories, do a related activity, and then lend out books to the children. It was a great summer job and led me down the path to where I now find myself: cultivating literacy in teenager as a high school librarian.

But this post isn’t about literacy, it’s about what I did with my first paycheck: I bought a guitar.

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I am so in love with the song “Little Bribes” by Death Cab for Cutie.

In addition to the great melody, it has one of my favorite lyrics ever: “You were like a walking condiment, tall in stature and exceptionally red.” How great of a simile is that? Except, um, I guess the lyric is actually “You were like a walking compliment, tall in stature and exceptionally read.” Now I’m a little disappointed, but I still love the song.