The UnCola
I’m attending a Psychopharmacology conference this week; that is, a conference where you learn current best practices in Psychiatric medication management. In short, the intellects are expansive and the humors …
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The Time Traveler’s Guide
Twice a year we get to participate in the mystical journey of time travel, springing forward or falling backward in space, also known as Daylight Saving. For all you grammar …
The Shelf Life of Assumptions
You probably think I enjoy listening…I don’t. (Cue chirping crickets.) You might also think I’m empathetic, caring, compassionate, a people person, and any other adjectives typically scripted …
Musings: How’s It Going?
For those of you working your way through the Fall Reading list challenge, you’re probably about half to three-quarters through by now. How’s it going? As you think back on …
Musings: Dusty Books and Dustier Tapestries
This post is just an article dump of a few recent readings I’ve enjoyed, with metaphors mixed in. It secondarily adds to the twenty by twenty challenge, if interested. A …
Fall Reading List: Twenty By Twenty
The sun passed the celestial equator this week, ushering in the autumnal equinox with a flurry of Boston weather. Along with brown boots, over-eager squirrels, and the imminent threat of …
Musings: On Seaside Ports and Lobster Roll
A lot of basic schemas in life are incredibly inefficient: Marriage…Sleep…Eating…Sex (not in that order)…Caring for anything from goldfish to elderly parents. Relationships, at their core, are inefficient. I savor …
Beauty and the Selfie
“‘I could not take my eyes from her face which grew larger as she approached, like a sun which it was somehow possible to stare at and which was coming …
Musings: Back to School
I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. –Maya …
Sound the Barbaric YAWP
I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world. –Walt Whitman As an English and Psychology major, one of my favorite Robin Williams’ movies is Dead Poets Society. I remember watching …