I love giving gifts any time of year, but during the holidays I feel like giving also brings a special opportunity to express value and thoughtfulness. I should qualify this by saying I don’t often give monetary gifts, what with tuition and living costs leeching what little fiscal flexibility working a job allows. But gifts do not have to be expensive to be meaningful, and … Continue reading Giving this holiday season
As a child, I spent many hours in the summer, after school, before bed, or pretty much any time, rifling through my many well-loved, ratty and frayed Calvin and Hobbes books. The rambunctious yet contemplative Calvin obviously resonated with me, as I pored over the books nonstop for years. I could tell that something about them was greater and more timeless than the hundreds of … Continue reading Get Rid Of Slimy comicS (G.R.O.S.S.)
It’s been a few weeks since I encouraged you Gusties to find your intentional flailing, your activity that shakes up your bones and awakens your soul. Friends, it is now time to do the same with words! Picture this: it’s midnight and you exit the library doors. The cold air makes your eyes water, beginning the formation of what will most likely be a giant … Continue reading How-are-you-good-how-are-you-good
Ever thought about how you take a break? How to maximize the relaxation and pleasure of having some time off? Or maybe just think that with all your free time, you could be more productive (well, someone around here must have a little extra time on their hands)? If you’re like me, you don’t have a lot of free time, no thanks to websites like … Continue reading Taking a break
After slightly threatening encouragements at the top of my web browser, I finally switched over my Yahoo page from the older version to the new format. The sad part is I’m pretty sure they made this replacement sometime last spring. But the time had come where I would be forced to automatically convert to New Yahoo. I literally waited as long as I could. And … Continue reading Change is like a naked ape
I remember vividly the day I became addicted to music. I was on the cusp of adolescence and fed up with the gag-inducing pop songs that perpetually played on Radio Disney. I figured the time had come for me to grow up and experience the strange and expansive world known as rock music. With an FM station guide in hand, I scoured the airwaves searching … Continue reading A tale of musical obsession
As college students, we only have four years to make the most out of our being a twenty-something-year-old with no real responsibility to name, and nothing to tie us down. Although I can think of plenty of times that this excuse has come in really handy in an attempt to explain some of my actions, there is a single event in my college career that … Continue reading Studying abroad: realigning worldviews.
Once again, after the November 3 elections, Americans have proved that the same baseless scare tactics have worked. It was on that day that the people of Maine voted to overturn a law, passed by the legislature and signed by the governor, which granted full marriage-equality rights to all Maine citizens. In doing so, Maine became the 31st state in the Union to reject same-sex … Continue reading The case for love
With the latest figures from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) pointing toward a largely limited public option, some national commentators are wondering what the big fuss about the public option was about. The truth is that having the public option as part of the health care reform serves two purposes. One purpose is practical, based on the idea of providing competition against private insurers. The … Continue reading Much ado about public option? Not quite.
Has the memory of move-in day already faded in your mind, or does it seem like it was maybe last week? It’s November, and that means snow, ice and the arctic breeze are on their way. I know you probably don’t even want to hear about it right now, but it’s November, and let’s face it, we all get a little down on November every … Continue reading It’s November
