The Time Traveler’s Guide
Twice a year we get to participate in the mystical journey of time travel, springing forward or falling backward in space, also known as Daylight Saving. For all you grammar …
The Shelf Life of Assumptions
You probably think I enjoy listening…I don’t. (Cue chirping crickets.) You might also think I’m empathetic, caring, compassionate, a people person, and any other adjectives typically scripted …
Musings: How’s It Going?
For those of you working your way through the Fall Reading list challenge, you’re probably about half to three-quarters through by now. How’s it going? As you think back on …
Musings: Dusty Books and Dustier Tapestries
This post is just an article dump of a few recent readings I’ve enjoyed, with metaphors mixed in. It secondarily adds to the twenty by twenty challenge, if interested. A …
Fall Reading List: Twenty By Twenty
The sun passed the celestial equator this week, ushering in the autumnal equinox with a flurry of Boston weather. Along with brown boots, over-eager squirrels, and the imminent threat of …
Musings: On Seaside Ports and Lobster Roll
A lot of basic schemas in life are incredibly inefficient: Marriage…Sleep…Eating…Sex (not in that order)…Caring for anything from goldfish to elderly parents. Relationships, at their core, are inefficient. I savor …
Beauty and the Selfie
“‘I could not take my eyes from her face which grew larger as she approached, like a sun which it was somehow possible to stare at and which was coming …
Musings: Back to School
I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. –Maya …
Sound the Barbaric YAWP
I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world. –Walt Whitman As an English and Psychology major, one of my favorite Robin Williams’ movies is Dead Poets Society. I remember watching …
On Birth Order and National Vinyl Record Day (The latter is way cooler, the former is more apropos to counseling)
SO, today is my birthday. Here’s me celebrating in my second favorite hat. That’s not what this is really about, though. It’s about the amazing holiday (or holidays) that just …