"Oh," I thought. "It's been almost a year again since I posted ( Read more... )

Well, I did it. I went an entire year without posting to LJ. I suppose this marks the end of an era ( Read more... )

I can't count the number of blogs I've started in my head, in notepad on my phone, or even here on LJ ( Read more... )

I've never done a proper blog about being an "atypical" ADD kid or finally getting the diagnosis at age 27 that literally changed my life. I don't think this will be that blog, but who's to say what a "proper" blog is anyway. I want to talk to you about creativity and productivity but first I have to talk to you about ADD, because for me all ( Read more... )

"Privilege is perpetuated in part by the silence of people when one of their own group does something questionable. This can be an inappropriate joke, or someone admitting that they committed a crime against a non-privileged person (eg. rape), etc."

-Andrea Rubenstein, from "Check my what?" On privilege and what we can do about itThis blog has ( Read more... )

The insomnia rarely visits these days, but tonight I'm wide awake at 3:30AM. Months of enforcing a sleep schedule that would satisfy even the most strict of Catholic nuns has convinced my body that 3:30AM is for dreaming and snoring, so I haven't seen this dark of night in quite some time ( Read more... )

I am 29 today ( Read more... )

I glanced down and the clock said "1:23". Not as lucky as "12:34," but still enough to wish on ( Read more... )

They say that of all the senses, smell has the greatest ability to make us nostalgic. Musty, dying smells conjure up forgotten afternoons of playing in abandoned barns. I keep smelling "new toy" and remembering sitting in the front seat of my mom's Volkswagon Rabbit, tearing open the package of the She-Ra doll who had wings. I walked into David' ( Read more... )

In the elevator. I'm going up to the top but everyone in here with me is getting off on four ( Read more... )