One good thing about my social media addiction is having insight into other people's experiences. Today I read a Twitter thread about this guy's 11 year old daughter who loves to send hand-written letters-and she wrote one to thank her mailman for sneding them and it exploded into a nationwide pen pal effort. Her dad ended the thread by addressing ( Read more... )

Sometime today I realized where I made that fatal wrong turn that I feel like I am paying for so heavily now ( Read more... )

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from an episode of Scrubs. Any episode, try it, it'll relate. Careers, insecurity, relationships, strength- you will find it. And it's funny how you really notice those things at just the right moment. Maybe they stand out because you're ready to listen, or maybe you just forgot that you heard ( Read more... )

New Orleans is built on swamp. What's worse, it's thriving suburbs to the south and East are built on even less stable swamps. It has been cause for discussion for decades, especially when issues of flooding, natural disaster and land erosion arise ( Read more... )

I'm currently watching (what seems to be part II of) Latino in America and my curiosity about Soledad O'Brian got the best of me. I've seen her hundreds of times and though, much lile Hota Kotb (reprazetn NOLA yeah!)that she was just some ambiguously brown woman. She is, in fact, born of an Afro-Cuban mother and and Australian-Irish father. That's ( Read more... )

I will tell you why I hate you, the internet, and Facebook ( Read more... )

"Birds of a feather flock together" is generally a true statement for the majority of the world. There aren't too many people whose closest friends differ greatly from them. Sometimes our friends may have differing political or religious views but when it comes down to interests, personality types and intellect, we typically surround ourselves with ( Read more... )

"We don't choose who we fall in love with, but we do get to choose whether we continue in a relationship and make things work"I hate it when people say "love is a choice". It is not. We have all, at some point or another, loved or been in love with someone that was bad for us and that we wished that we could relinquish. To say it is a choice is to ( Read more... )

What the hell? Ok, so I'm 29. No biggie. Right? The last year of my twenties. I feel like I should now really start to "straighten up and fly right"...whatever that means. I do feel a little older, a little more mature, maybe a little more focused and working towards being a little less scared ( Read more... )

I came to a realization some time ago about how I had previously defined myself personally as well as spiritually. I told someone that Wicca fit my personality more than I fit into it. I have partially subscribed to Wicanism since I was about 17, about the time that I stopped being Catholic. I left the church I'd grown up in because of the people ( Read more... )