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Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new cloud. Call it the Jacques Cousteau. Call it the roiling ocean. Call it the Armageddon. Members of the Cloud Appreciation Society are calling it asperatus and [...]

It’s insane but I must drive 17 miles one way to the grocery store for three items: wine, chocolate, and tampons. I am grumpy about this fact and grumpy about the cute couple ahead of me in line, [...]

Thanks to tips from a friend back in Oregon, I think I may forgo interval training for Tabata training. The results sound convincing in a short amount of time…and I’ve only got about four weeks [...]

I would like to say that right now, today, I’ve never wanted to be in Oregon more. My parents are there on a visit and all my graduate school friends are convening at Pacific University for one [...]

[Clarification: Sorry. I’ve been sleeping 4-5 hours per night for about two weeks straight. It leads to…incomplete…thoughts. The point of mentioning aunts and uncles in yesterday’s post is that [...]

Reflections on being an only child: ONE: Very little went unnoticed in my childhood. I like to phrase it this way because the stereotype that only children are “spoiled” never really sits right [...]

Hanshi tells me that before I can test for Yonkyu (purple belt), I need to pass the Pine Tree Test. I’ve been working toward this on a small scale for about a year. But with Hanshi’s suggestion [...]

I woke up this morning after two consecutive nights of fantastic sleep and felt like a flip switched in my brain. Onward and upward, my morning mood seemed to say—and thank god for that! I [...]

I think I just came up with the best dessert, ever. The best dessert, that is, if you’re officiating a wedding in six weeks and need to stay the EXACT weight you are or, better yet, lose 5 [...]

I try to research formal studies on writers’ brains but all my searches either lead to links about “writer’s brain” from over-focusing or articles about obsessive compulsive disorder. I consider [...]