Today? A round-up of wisdom, some clichéd and others not, that bears repeating.* (via My Modern Met) The world will not end should you decide not to engage with it. “Be different from one another, and love our differences with big, open hearts.” – Sally McGraw from Already Pretty The memories you make are all […]
There once was a girl who wanted to read all the books in the world. She believed sincerely that she could chew her way through book after book, never re-reading and never looking back. She would read the good with the bad, the classics with the post-modern, and eventually conquer all the material there was […]
I was disappointed with my recent visit to the Museum of Natural History. I hadn’t been there in quite a while, but walking into the Asian animals room immediately brought back memories of how the museum gives me some serious creeps. I started looking at the museum map, which indicated rooms for “Asian Peoples” and […]
Happy Thanksgiving! Now that you’ve getting a hefty dose of tryptophan and starches in your diet (and more than a small serving of my counternarrative argument from yesterday’s post), I want to introduce some levity into the idea of Thanksgiving. I think it’s a great holiday because it highlights – however strangely – the need […]
While in DC, I went to the zoo. For an entire afternoon, I was wandering the grounds of the National Zoo, spending some quality time in the small mammal house, hanging out as a party of one. You might be asking: why did you spend an entire day at the zoo? Aren’t there all these […]
This week, I looked back through the archives of life lessons that I’ve put up over the last few months and picked out some of my favorites. I’ve been learning so much from just thinking about how to teach others the methods that have worked well for me, that it’s nice to revisit some of […]
In the interest of distracting my inner editor this National Novel Writing Month, here are some tips on what to do when your writing seems unoriginal: 1. Play a creativity game with yourself. Perhaps these or the ones on this site. 2. Lock away your inner editor (possibly physically) by envisioning them as a real […]
Few holidays find me giving myself as much protracted self-love as birthdays. I get to gather all my friends around me to appreciate my very existence on this earth – what could be more awesome? Birthdays can also be a time of self-reflection and regeneration. A time to look back on all the growing you’ve […]
For the past two weeks, I have been conducting an experiment on myself to answer the question: what would it be like to drink only water for a week? While I did not use the strictest scientific method (never record what happens, no controlled variables, etc.), I set out to discover whether I, as an […]
Me, as a terrified freshman. I love freshmen or – as Barnard would have us call them – first years. Having moved in early this year for Well Woman training, I got to see them as they went about their orientation activities and attended endless programming. And in between the student services fair, the perspectives […]