For much of my life, I documented everything. Long, rambling journal entries begot long rambling entries in an AOL mailing list (LOL) which begot long rambling livejournal entries, and so on, and…
I. My parents instilled in me this underlying belief that things would always work out. During periods of depression, I watch this conviction recede from my horizon. The version of myself who…
Missing months on the blog kill me. Not because I’m worried that anyone’s wondering what’s happened to me or that anyone is anxiously awaiting my next deeply moving essay on clumsiness or…
There are a lot of ways to move forward, but I feel both a strong urge and a sense of responsibility to move forward by talking about how I moved forward. That’s…
When I graduated college in 2010 I came home and had no plan. It was terrifying and exciting to suddenly be so profoundly unsure of what came next. I found myself disconnected…
I had this big plan to blog more often this year. This blog, specifically. I was going to give myself schedules. Right now, I should be posting Monday, Wednesday, Friday. When I…
Academic life has a lot of hard endings and beginnings. Finite markers. Here is where one thing ends and another begins. There’s something gratifying in that because you are given a definitive…
I’m still vomiting feelings all over your internet, but I get to do that because I have a blog. That’s one of the reasons I have blogs. I also have comment sections,…
“Not to be critical, but…” began a Facebook comment which inevitably followed with an incredibly critical comment on an article a friend shared. I care very little about the local business in…
Between the fact that I was bursting with love for The Holiday Council and my general babbling about fixing the assorted cracks and fissures in my life, I’ve been on a bit…