You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Damn, half way already? I feel like I blinked I January’s finished. Things need to slow down a little, here. Not that they will. They never do. I hopped on Facebook to get ready to …
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? T.S. Eliot This whole LEGO thing is out of control. I’m not writing this article on the goal I mentioned last week of assembling a LEGO to plan per week, but I did think it’d be a neat exercise to …
But it’s hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don’t pleasure him no more. Stephen King / Richard Bachman, Thinner Short post as I’ve been out most of the weekend and the time I did have it seems I used poorly. Story of my life, really, but a good …
Do or do not. There is no try. Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back I’ve come to accept the fact that none of my ambitions get done if I’m not tracking them, and even then it’s difficult to keep on task if I’m not having someone keep me accountable. I have terrible discipline – something I’m …
We’re totally guilty of doing too much at once, all while trying to manage the noise in our heads that says we’re not doing enough. Vanessa Autrey, The Art of Balancing Burnout Well, hello there, friends and readers. It’s been a bit, hasn’t it? Sorry about that – after I finished up the No King …
I don’t care what you think unless it is about me. Kurt Cobain Here we are, at the end of our long journey together. It’s been… fun? Educational? Hopefully at least thought provoking? Either way, I want to thank those of you who have stuck it out along the way. The goal of this process …
Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes. Mokokoma Mokhonoana Five down, two to go. And the two we have left are doozies (Huh, that’s actually a word and that’s how you spell it, how about that?). I considered the first …
Isn’t it funny. I’m enjoying my hatred so much more than I ever enjoyed love. Janet Fitch, White Oleander Wrath. Unlike some of our previous expositions, everyone understands this one from the onset. We all have an image of Wrath, an anecdote or association that we can conjure at hearing the word. And, also unlike …
I have a soul of lead // So stakes me to the ground I cannot move. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet I’d like to relay a bit of irony right off the bat. Every article written for this site – every single one of them – I wrote the day of publication. And every one …
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby Welcome back, my friends, to the land of remedial introspection. At this point we’ve covered Gluttony and Avarice, two of the three Deadly Sins that I’ve come to …
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