This isn't a complaint, but it's well past Epiphany and I've been “stuck” in Vermont since Dec. 23. What's that thing about our best laid plans? My plan was to come home for Christmas and maybe stay for New Year's… And yet, here I am, blogging from my mother's kitchen table. In Vermont. In what [...]
I talk a lot about practicing gratitude. I try to keep an actual gratitude journal, but—thankfully—sometimes I'm too busy to get to it every day. When I do have (read: make) the time to write down my blessings, I realize how much I have to be grateful for. I'm grateful for the Poetic License that [...]
It's Rapture Eve 2011 and there's a storm brewing as I write this. While I was driving home earlier this evening, the sun was shining and I saw lightning in the distance. Captivating. Now toward the later side of dusk, the sky is filled with clouds, dark in some places, still light enough in others [...]
…but it's more important to be nice. The Long Island Railroad used to have pencils bearing that motto. I know this because my grandfather worked for the LIRR his whole life. Years after he retired, there were still bundles of pencils—unsharpened and erasers hardened past the point of being in any way useful—in the drawer [...]
