My earliest memory is taking a bath in the kitchen sink. Now that I think back to that memory, I begin to wonder if it is real. Things get fuzzy with time. Things get fuzzy, the concrete details, that is, but the feelings remain. And I have this feeling, this fuzzy, snap-shot image, faded with […]
I have been eating crap for dinner. Not literal crap. If I were eating literal crap, that would mean I have pica. If I had pica, that may be an indication that I have some other mental disorder. But even if I did not have a mental disorder and I was eating literal crap for
I have known several people in my life who saw dancing as a “vertical representation of what you do lying down.” First of all, I love that description. There is something truly magical about the euphemism (for those of you who didn’t understand what the quote meant, it is about sex). The best part about
Why do certain people get famous? I have never really understood fame. I have never really understood the obsession with someone famous. I really haven’t (complete honesty here). When I read a book I like, I think it would be cool to talk to the author, but there are so many people who seem to
Unrequited love isn’t the worst thing in the world. I can think of a few other things that are worse. Sure, if you love someone and they don’t love you back, it’s no picnic; but I have never heard of someone who has killed himself because he was rejected by a girl (or heard of
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It hasn’t turned to fall yet. I wouldn’t say, not fully, at least. We’ve had a few cold days, probably in the fifties. I don’t really keep track of the temperature, except for how it feels on my skin. Today it is sixty-three, which places me in an odd predicament. Should I wear pants or
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My family is not one that engages in personal story. When something happens in my family, we instead inform each other about what has happened. Instead of giving each other the information in a story format, we present it as a short summary of what the person needs to know about the situation. In some
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This is for high school students, and it will be some of the best advice you get in relation to your career. I think it is good advice because besides warning against a pitfall I did not avoid, it also gives you direction for what you should do. This advice is easily summed up in
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One thing I believe vital for becoming better as a human and a society rests on a simple yet profound idea that I believe undergirds all the ideals that make a society function well. This is the idea of freedom of speech, an idea, though seen as innate, has not been the norm for the
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Language is deceptive by nature. Language is deceptive because it is imprecise and ambiguous, but we as humans are not often aware of this fact or it has slipped our minds (often we are merely too busy to worry about it). Because we are unaware of the deceptive nature of language, we take concepts behind
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