Some people see the winter as an endless stretch of dark and misery. For me? It’s a time to get the creative projects cranking, and see everything as bright. All it takes is a little shift in perspective. I don’t let the winter get me down. I can think of a million reasons to be […]
Continue readingWhen rising waters of self doubt threaten to leave your dreams in tatters, it’s easy to get discouraged. But before you walk away, take a look at the wreckage. You never know what you might salvage. I can’t really imagine living through a flood. Buildings can be engineered to withstand earthquakes and fires. But rising […]
Continue readingWant to play a game? It’s really fun, I promise. Here’s how it goes: Think of a popular television show, then ask me “Hey, have you seen ________?” Unless you were thinking of Game of Thrones or anything else on HBO, the answer is almost certainly no. Outside of that, let’s see. . . I […]
Continue readingWith the Easter holiday coming this weekend, we’ll be boiling and dying eggs with our niece and nephew, and it’s probably the only time this year I’ll be eating hardboiled eggs. And, while hardboiled eggs are fine, I thought I’d take the opportunity to share five more interesting ways to consume an egg. The thing […]
Continue readingTen days after my twenty-fifth birthday—Thursday, July 18, 2009—I woke up early and headed to work as usual. I expected it to be just another day in a string of extremely long summer days—I run the aquatics portion of our summer camp and typically my days are thirteen hours long at this time of year. […]
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