Reasons to celebrate.
My friends and family know I’m not big on birthday celebrations. As long as I receive a text message from people who have my phone number I’m a happy camper. This year, however, I tried to adopt a different approach. Instead of being indifferent to punctuating another year, I decided I wanted to celebrate. That’s […]
On loving the Olympics.
It’s 3 o’clock in the afternoon and I just finished a cup of coffee which means I may not sleep tonight. Coffee was necessary though because I was dragging after staying up to watch Lindsey Vonn ski her (probably) last Olympic race and the U.S. Women’s Hockey team defeat Canada in a shootout. As a […]
On 9 things to do when you become unemployed.
Finding yourself unemployed can be worrisome and stressful. I had had a job most of my adult life so it was weird waking up on January 3, 2017, realizing there was nowhere I needed to be and no one to report to. And while there were moments of panic, I tend to be a solutions-oriented […]
On New Year’s Resolutions.
This post is about three weeks later than I anticipated, mostly because my life has been out of sorts since saying goodbye to my dog at the end of 2017. It is still January though so I feel I can still sneak in a New Year’s Resolution post. That said, I don’t believe in New Year’s […]
On Tut.
It’s Christmas Eve and I’m sitting in my apartment in Austin, with my dog sleeping soundly in his bed. For the past week he’s been battling a back/neck injury. The pain he’s experiencing seems to be excruciating. He has rarely slept through the night. When he moves he screams (it’s a basenji thing) and it […]
A lesson from my father.
When I was in sixth grade my father lost his job. I had just started middle school, which meant both sides of town were attending classes together for the first time. Because the average house size on the south side of town was smaller than on the north side of town, the south side (where I […]