I went to a bridal shower this afternoon and one of the bits of wisdom shared was that marriage is heartbreaking work. While I generally agreed with the sentiment it didn’t feel like a total articulation of the experience. So I sat on the train to Harrisburg en route to visit my mother in law […]
Yesterday was my last day of work. I said goodbye. A lot. This took its toll. My composure transmuted into more of a wet sponge facade. However, it turned out I had the following arrows in my quiver (some lucky, some planned for): 1) A long walk to the museum to distract me and give […]
I have finally killed procrastination for good. Allow me to qualify this statement by adding some specificity. I have finally mastered a student’s enemy: schoolwork-related procrastination. I’m still quite the procrastinator when it comes to several other important life arenas (cleaning, you know who you are and i curse you), but I feel that as […]
Loving India. I get it. It’s hard to say without sounding a little operatic, but there’s something wonderful, and demanding, and difficult, and beautiful, about life here. I would go back to Rio or Hong Kong in a second, but India is captivating and heart breaking in a way I have not dealt with before.
Dear Readers, Time for simple begging has come, and I am before you, on my metaphorical knees, asking you to please subscribe, with the humble promise of more interesting blog posts in the near (possibly very near) future. Among other things, I want to test out my website’s ability to manage subscribers and its ability […]
I have no idea what I’m doing (owning a site, and being responsible for technical things), but here I go doing it. You’ll have to tolerate my learning curve. I’ve decided to start a new blog on writing. The process of writing my memoir was documented here. Why write about writing? I know. You haven’t […]