Fall in love with being alive
It’s a scary world and I don’t think it’s going to get better. Here are some tips brought to you from Shihan Renee Datto of Yosai School of Karate and Kickboxing: Avoiding the creepy hug As they go in for the hug, step back, press your dominant hand against their chest and grab their wrist […]
“Being an adult is just saying “But after this week things will slow down a bit again” to yourself until you die.” – Kristen Anderson-Lopez I keep telling myself that NEXT week I will slow down. I”ve been saying this since April though so I think it’s time to accept my fate. There is no […]
The trip home from the Adirondacks was sad and uneventful. I hate leaving there almost as much as I hate leaving the FInger Lakes and going back to Binghamton. Maybe the actual problem is just that I hate Binghamton. We got home to unpack but I just unpacked one bag to repack another in order […]
Wednesday: I’m writing this on Wednesday because I feel bad and I don’t know why. I am on the verge of having 5 and a half days off and they will be filled with wonderful things like hiking, biking, rock climbing and the peak of fall colors in the Adirondack mountains. So why do I […]
I don’t like scary movies. There’s something about them that gets under my skin and into the remnants of the overactive imagination I’ve had since childhood What I do like is actual scary things. Haunted houses, corn fields at night, bats, the rattle of dead leaves behind you on a full moon night, abandoned places, […]
I feel like adult conversations are totally passionless. We talk about our jobs, kids, the weather, the state of the lawn. And I do this too, don’t get me wrong, but I feel like I’m full of so much more, and maybe you are too? I was thinking on Friday about how I wanted to […]
Step 1: Find someone that knows what they are doing Step 2: Have them teach you what to do Step 3: Find some rocks to climb Step 4: Practice Practice Practice (with proper supervision) Step 5: Climb Climb Climb I feel like everything is happening at once. I feel like summer is ending at the […]
“Parkinson’s Law is the old adage that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion. The term was first coined by Cyril Northcote Parkinson in a humorous essay he wrote for “The Economist” in 1955.” I worked for the past seven days straight so it’s possible Cyril Northcote Parkinson was thinking of me […]
Summer is ending again and I don’t honestly know how. I feel like I blinked and missed it. I feel like one minute I was standing on the edge of summer and now I have found myself in a heap at the bottom. I’m trying to be excited about all of the things to come. […]
There’s a lot of pressure put on wedding days and I don’t really know why. It’s a single day in what is hopefully a very long lifetime spent with another person. That being said, I hope my cousin and her new wife had the most perfect wedding day imaginable and I’m so glad I got […]
