It’s 6:30 in the morning and my phone is ringing. I stumble out of bed, pick it up, and am greeted with the dial tone. I look over at the birdcage hanging in a stream of early morning light. I then hear my cell phone, our old phone, a dump truck backing up and our [...]
It’s hard to say why one person will have cosmetic surgery done and another won’t consider it, but generally I think people who go for surgery are more aggressive, they are the doers of the world. It’s like makeup. You see some women, who might be greatly improved by wearing makeup, but they’re, I don’t [...]
I have never really been interested in participating in sports. I was in the usual activities in school gym classes and my parents enrolled me in community soccer in the summers, but I never was great at it and I rarely enjoyed being part of a team. In middle and high school I did like [...]
I am about to start a job search again. I am currently an academic researcher in social science, my third “career” so to speak since I finished my bachelor’s degree in my early twenties, and I find my work very fulfilling and interesting. However, the downside of the job is its instability due to academic [...]
