A friend just sent me a link to a short video. You know how this is. You appreciate that someone watched something and thought of you, thought how you might enjoy watching it too, and then took the time to compose a short message to you and include a link to the video. […]
I grew up in a family that swears. When I was four years old, my grandmother (not much of a swearer, herself) asked me not to say “fuck” around my 18-year-old cousin, because he might be offended by it. I suspect that she would likely have been more embarrassed than he would have […]
Among my internet time-wasters are a small handful of photo-heavy blogs maintained by total strangers. I follow a couple of them on a daily basis, and others I check in on every other week or so. Almost all of the bloggers are friends and link to one another’s websites, so it’s easy to […]
“Change is the only constant,” they say.
On the other hand, they also say, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
Whether directly opposed clichéd truisms such as these simply render themselves and each other meaningless is up to debate, I suppose, but they both seem fairly valid to me, in a paradoxical […]
Last year I picked up some part-time tutoring to make a little extra money. After growing discontented with the company I was working for, I decided to see if I could work independently, freelancing for a few hours a week.
I live near a fairly well-to-do area of LA, so I figured perhaps I could […]