Good news! I’m almost caught up with schoolwork, so I anticipate writing another chapter for The Weavers’ Blessing tomorrow! I’m sorry for keeping you waiting for so long; hopefully it will be worth the wait. To tide you over, here is a [real] short story that I just wrote (Get the joke? Because The Weavers’ Blessing was …
If you’re a human, you’re probably familiar with this feeling. Whether it be directed at a chocolate bar, a yet-to-be-released TV episode, movie, or book, a certain time of the year, a vacation, a person, a time from your past, or something else, at some point in life we’ve all experienced longing. I never really …
Despite what the title would lead you to believe, this post will not contain any rejoicing over the outcome of today’s election–nor, hopefully, will it contain any bashing of the president or American citizens. (Tangent: I have to admit, I love thinking up titles that suggest a meaning opposite of the content which they represent …
This is a post about things that annoy me, of varying levels of silliness and seriousness, in no particular order. 1. Peanut Butter I don’t like peanut butter, except occasionally on peanut butter and honey sandwiches. Yet most of the world strangely seems to be in love with it. It sneaks into everything. There’s always …
Today was one of those days when your teacher lectures your class on the hopelessness of your generation, what a failure you all are. Only it happened in not one, but both of my classes. It began in my Poli Sci class. Professor A got angry at the class for being nonacademic. “This is a university,” …
Most things that I like to do come to me in phases. I’ll have a historical fiction phase, a guitar-playing phase, a baking phase, etc. These phases repeat throughout my life,, but they only come at certain, unpredictable times. When they come, I try to take full advantage of them, especially when it’s a phase …
Happy fourth of July!! For this Independence Day, I considered writing a post, “The Truth About the Fourth of July,” in which I illuminated all our misconceptions and expounded on true historical facts of the date. (Being a scholar of history, this seemed to me an appropriate approach to the holiday.) Yet, as I thought …
Hey, lovely readers!! It’s been a while. Yes, I’m still alive, and no, I haven’t fallen into a dark hole and disappeared forever. So, today, I want to leave you with something short, sweet, and to the point. Perhaps it is best to start with a Relient K quote as the thesis: “Why don’t you …
(In my opinion, some of my titles are quite clever, while others are more blatantly obvious. This is one of the latter.) I’ve been thinking for a while now about writing out my thoughts on leadership: namely, how to be a great leader. Having been in a leadership position since I was a freshman in …
When it’s warm outside, my family likes to eat dinner on our back patio. One night near the end of this past summer, we were doing just that. I had recently developed a fascination with pruning our overgrown plants and was looking at them, planning to continue in the morning. Then one of us, I …