Arbitrary Madness. Artistic Exploration. Dope Things.
What follows is my third and final story from my travels outside of my hometown that I believe challenges the big, bad, scary world notion that I address in my first contribution. T-Money Days after I graduated from college I packed everything I owned into the back of Victory, my 20 year old Volvo stationContinue Reading “Big Bad World – Part 3: T-Money.”
This post was originally written April 2017. We can pretty much universally agree that fear is deconstructive. That it holds you back from achieving great things, that it’s counter to all the possibilities that the Universe actually has built for you. We strive to be courageous and think past fear. To leap when there’s nothingContinue Reading “Fear of…pancakes?”
I met the character Hamish Macbeth late in his career as a lazy, romantically doomed police constable in Scotland. Having become familiar with M.C. Beaton’s Agatha Raisin series, I had an idea what to expect, but also no clue. The reasons I loved Agatha Raisin just couldn’t transfer across genders: Agatha Raisin is middle-aged yetContinue Reading “Death of a Liar (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery).”
I feel like all the famous people had wild ass stories and maybe it’s no coincidence. Maybe that’s why they’re out doing amazing famous people things and I can go to my old high school and be mistaken for a sixth grader. I’ve only read a couple chapters of Kevin Hart’s memoir and they’re alreadyContinue Reading “My first best friend.”
Between panicked overreactions and sleep-deprived nights, Henry and Albie managed to surprise me by being downright cute at times. Those cute streaks generally led to me taking pictures of the boys and convincing myself that the pictures were specifically for sending to my sister (who would undoubtedly appreciate some photos of the furballs). If I’mContinue Reading “I Am Not A Cat Lady…Usually.”
Perfection is the enemy of progress. I wrote this on my wall of things to remember in 2017 because that was a hard lesson in 2016. Perfection is evil. Perfection is that thing that drags you down before you even get started. It says, “No, more thinking must be done,” and gets in the way ofContinue Reading “The enemy of progress.”
I had just finished an internship in Uganda and was maximizing my trip to the other side of the world by taking my college friend, Jayanti, up on a longstanding offer to visit her hometown in India. About halfway through my week visiting I accidentally ingested a whole green chili pepper while eating lunch inContinue Reading “Big Bad World – Part 2: ABS Challenge.”
Big Magic was yet another book I needed to reinforce my subconscious understanding of life and purpose. I decided to finally listen to the book with the beautiful cover after a friend of mine gave me a spoiler. She told me about a story that Elizabeth Gilbert shared in the first few chapters – oneContinue Reading “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear.”
I’m the baby of my four siblings, so I haven’t had the pleasure of picking on some poor helpless child…until recently. Yep, thanks to my extended family, I now have a whole slew of nieces and nephews I can pick on. My oldest nephew has some of my personality traits, so he’s not the bestContinue Reading “My nephew Anthony.”
