As I sit here eating Triscuits in a flat in London, I think about how strange it is that just last night I was in Detroit. It’s strange because Delta felt I should fly two hours in the wrong direction before flying to London. To their credit, my travels were extremely smooth. Flights were on…
We are a society of the here and now. Many decisions we make as individuals and as a nation are short-sighted and focus on immediate gain. The result is that our lives get messed up over the long term, and then we get frustrated wondering how that could’ve happened. I recently experienced this phenomena firsthand.…
Some people may see my constant posts debunking the inaccuracies from the “other side” as negative. So, here is a list of all the things I am in favor of. I am in favor of: love making my own healthcare decisions being able to defend myself without allowing others to go on mass killing sprees…
We’ve all been there… coming off a painful breakup and using retail therapy to ease our aching heart. The problem was that, at the time of my retail therapy, the stress of the breakup had caused me to lose a rather large (and unsustainable) amount of weight. But all I could think about as I…
Technology has made our lives go so fast and furious that we are often left with a feeling of emptiness at the end of the day when we realize we weren’t fully present for any of it. We were texting or updating our Facebook status or rushing from place to place in an automobile. Many…
When I was 29, it was a very bad year. The previous September, our sense of security had been violently shattered, and many of us were not taking it well. It really put life into a completely new perspective. I’ve always had some level of wanderlust, and, up until that point, I had not wandered…
Being a [mostly] vegetarian is very rewarding but also has its drawbacks. On the good side, you avoid eating factory-raised meats which can have all kinds of physiological and karmic nastiness in them. But some people, myself included, need a lot of protein in our diets. So, I am always looking for ways to inject…
I live in the country… deep in the country. I often lay in bed at night wondering what this or that noise is that I hear outside. Most are brief, and I chalk them up to the wind or some scurrying critter, but last night I was awakened around 2:30 a.m. by a loud, incessant…
Today is March 3, 2012. I heard geese overhead yesterday, making an early return to the north. Surely the sparkling ice-free ponds are beckoning them to return. Buds are on the trees, and sap is running. The temperature today will hit 55 degrees. Tomorrow it will hit 65 degrees. The historical average temperature for today…
I am learning a LOT in my masters degree. One of the things we’re talking about is the ethical implications of our individual actions. It may not seem like your 45-minute commute to work is wrecking the planet, but what about a million people’s 45-minute commute? We all have a duty to exercise the utmost…