Sometimes, when I’m on the job hunt, I wonder whether this whole joblessness thing is here to teach me something. It helps when I’m headed back on the train in the middle of the night, still wondering how to respond perfectly to that oft-asked party question — ‘so what are you doing now?’ The lessons […]
These posts were written during the summer while I was in Bangladesh, in preparation for the upcoming academic year. Long story short: when I looked back at the archive, I didn’t have the desire or the time to put them up. But now, since I’m coming back to the blog, I decided that some of […]
I am sitting under a brown blanket on brown bedsheets in my dorm room, the first time I have seen the place in over a month, and I am sick. If you take the ‘everything happens for a reason’ line of thinking, I suppose this could be signaling to me that it was a positive […]
When you’re busy, everything feels like a miniature crisis. Didn’t turn in an assignment on time? Horror! Didn’t send that email to the right person? Madness! Every moment is part of an efficient machine and any small deviation feels disruptive. But you always know that those things are the small ones, the ones that can […]
I talked a bit about appreciating my American identity while being abroad, but now that we are down to the very last wire, I wanted to share some of the other lessons that I’ve taken away from this trip. Here it goes: Flexibility with earnest effort will take you a long way. Even when I […]
This week, I entreat you to reject the word ‘should.’ I remember in my high school, there was a giant orange poster that had a quote from Yoda on it that read: “There is no try, there is only do or do not.” I want to take that message and apply it to ‘should,’ in […]
Recently, I wrote an article for ThinkSimpleNow on celebrating everyday life. Since that time, I’ve been thinking a lot about incorporating celebrations into monthly, weekly, and daily rituals – because honestly, sometimes it can feel like time is just slipping past without you even realizing! My hope is that we claim even a small bit […]
My English advisor often tells me that you’re only going to learn what you teach yourself – formalized lesson plans and reading lists are great and all, but if you’re not engaging with the material on your own, it won’t really stick. And I think that’s very important in relation to the articles I’ve written […]
Today, I have the great pleasure to be featured on ThinkSimpleNow, a website that I have repeatedly recommended during the course of writing this blog. Check out my post on The Power of Rituals over at their website and, if you’re interested in taking a few other leaves from my book, check out this collection […]
As I shared last week, there was a recent death in my family. As a result, I’ve been struggling to process the event while still keeping myself on a regular schedule, spending time with people as they return to campus, and getting ready for the new classes that started today. In some ways, the regularity […]