This must be how cows feel when the farmer forgets to milk them
My eyes are burning from sleepiness, but theycan’t stop darting back to the TV where Bobby Flay is challenging a San Antonio woman to a “puffy taco” battle. My head is throbbing with every beat of my heart. My nostrils are flaring because of the damp smell that mysteriously emanates from the downstairs shower. Yet all of the sudden, I’m feeling marginally inspired to...
Read MoreIdentity pick-pocketing, and finding the perfect mark.
Some people have their biological clock ticking down to Parenthood. Mine is winding down to Success. I’m sure it seems arrogant, but I feel like I gotta do something awesome with my life. I know success isn’t something that can really be quantified, and that being successful doesn’t mean being rich and/or famous, but I wouldn’t mind if it did for me. Everywhere are people...
Read MorePugito, ergo amo.
Some people consider themselves to be “lovers” and not “fighters”. Some people are just downright aggressive and seem to lack the capacity to be calm and caring at all. As for me, I think that because I’m a lover, I’m also a fighter, and vice versa. Although loving and fighting might appear to be a world apart from each other, they’re actually more like...
Read MoreHunger for knowledge and the gluttony of the mind
When you’re first getting to know someone, it’s common to ask your new acquaintance what interests them. This is a chance to either realize you’re dealing with a vapid nitwit (I’m only using that word because I learned its etymology today and I got excited about it) or some superdeep well of information. Whenever I’m asked the question of what sort of things interest...
Read MoreVernal recreation: a retrospective
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, this year a veritable deluge of frozen precipitation has been graciously given to us New Englanders by the mighty meteorological powers that be. This generous gift has been received with welcoming, salted driveways, and our shovels runneth over. Though we trudge and toil, plow, blow, and scrape, I have rediscovered the necessity of enjoying the show once...
Read MoreBeth Dylan and the case of the curious catalyst.
I don’t think I’ve ever been a person to have the most healthy or normal reactions to significant changes in my life. I shied from the responsibility of being 4 years old by requesting to have an un-birthday, I vandalized bits of my new house after moving out of the apartment my family had lived in for a few years, I’ve repeatedly punched the tile floor in my bedroom when I was...
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