Now, I roll my eyes a lot, but recent trips to the convenience store near my office have me rolling them far back into my head. I've long been keeping track of the recent onslaught of green tea related beverages and energy drinks ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about some of the roles mentioned in Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point" about people who connect, people who can find deals etc ( Read more... )

My friend Tricia of bitsandbobbins.com wrote this great post a few weeks ago about why people dress the way they do, and how she developed her personal style. Tricia and I have been internet friends for about seven years now, even though we've never met in person. One of the great things about the Internet is that I've managed to find a close ( Read more... )

I found doing my taxes to be very illuminating this year. It's probably because this is the first year in my life that I had an actual, stable income that enabled me to live in a relative degree of comfort. I'm not rich by any means, but this was the first year that I was able to pay down large portions of debt, maintain a car and buy grown up ( Read more... )

Loneliness is something I think about quite frequently. I've been quite familiar with it for a while now as I've been living alone in the frozen north for over a year. I'm quite aware that I don't need as much social interaction as other people, but I still require some. I have a tendency to live in my head, so anything that can get me out of that ( Read more... )

I'm working on a story about piercing, so I spent yesterday talking to body piercers. I don't get creeped out very easily, but I learned about dermal bars, and all kinds of below the belt piercings, and things that can happen with piercings and actually ended up cringing quite a bit ( Read more... )

Since I started working on a story about high school grad, I started asking all my newsroom friends what they did for their high school graduations. I'm really surprised by the range of activities and acceptance/non acceptance of underage drinking ( Read more... )

I have had sleep issues for the majority of my life. Apparently I rarely slept as a baby. I used to be able to survive on little sleep, but I've lost that ability ( Read more... )

I am now declaring Halloween my favourite holiday for several reasons ( Read more... )

I read this weeks ago, and can't stop thinking about it.

What I realised with my own career as a journalist is that no one is going to knight you and dub you Foreign Correspondent. The chance of you doing something on a mainstream level is one in a million. No one is going to give you a passport and a flack jacket and say “GO - we trust in your ( Read more... )