Remember how your mom always told you not to play with your food? Well, I’m here to tell you otherwise. Or… at least to tell you that sometimes it has something worth saying. Err… too much of a stretch? Probably, but stick with me! One of my favorite parts of eating Chinese food (other than […]
Giving Thanks (and why it matters most when things look the worst)
I have the feeling that if you’re carefully examining the title of this post, you may get the impression that I jumped the gun on posting it – that I meant to save it for later in the month, around the Thanksgiving holiday. Well, maybe you’re right, but wait until you have finished reading to […]
NaNoWriMo (and 50,000 words of awesome)
Today marks many things: the first day of the month, the penultimate binary day of this century, Halloween-candy-hangover-recovery-day, some number of days until Thanksgiving or the many winter holidays… but most importantly, today marks the first day of one of the most awesome months of the year. Most awesome months, you ask? How can that […]
Ditch My Ride (or: how losing the car can set you free)
Tomorrow, if all goes according to plan, I will be car free for the first time in my life. Yup, you heard that right. Car free. I don’t actually consider it “losing” a car, so much as a conscious decision to move away from my dependence on the automotive lifestyle and my subsequent use of […]
Life, Loss (and why it matters)
It seems like every time I turn around, I hear about another famous person who has finished up their time on this planet and moved on, or about the passing of someone who was close to someone I knew. Sometimes it’s even someone I knew, someone close. There has been a lot of that recently […]
Location Independence (and how I’m shaking loose)
One of the great realizations that came out of the World Domination Summit this past June (future posts pending about that amazing experience) was the concept of creating your own life, writing your own story. The idea of not really being tied to any one place has always been a bit foreign to me given […]