If you yourself aren't perfect then there is no reason you should expect perfection from those around you. When someone close to you makes a decision, you don't necessarily have to agree with that decision, but because of your close relationship with that person, you should support their right to make a choice. If we all agreed with each other all ( Read more... )

"But this had not stopped her from taking pleasure in life, it now occurred to Ishmael. There she stood at the stove ladling soup with the calm ease of one who feels there is certainly such a thing as grace. She took pleasure in the soup's smell, in the heat of the woodstove, in the shadow of herself the candlelight now cast against the kitchen ( Read more... )

I'm torn. For my Self and the Scholarly Essay course, I have to choose a topic for a semester long research paper. Normally I would have no idea where to begin, but this time I have two decent sounding ideas ( Read more... )

I knew she wasn't going to be here, but I didn't expect it to be this hard ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt that my father was still alive. That rather than tell me about the horrible end to their relationship, my mother had just told me he died. I dreamt that I got to meet him. I got to have conversations with him--with the man I so resemble and so behave like. It was strange. I woke up feeling a sense of loss unfamiliar to me ( Read more... )

The snowflakes were huge last night: giant, fluffy wisps sailing down from the heavens ( Read more... )

Today I had the revelation that I'm done pretending everything is okay. I really am, at least for the time being ( Read more... )

I am so tired of professors wasting class time. Completely and utterly sick of it. We pay SO much money to go to school here and yet so many of the professors waste valuable class time on nonsense and busy work ( Read more... )

[Taxonomy]
Words into Hype

Nonfiction: Prose that is factual, except for newspapers.
Creative Nonfiction: Prose that is true, except in the case of memoir.
Memoir: From the latin memoria, meaning "memory," a popular form in which the writer remembers entire passages of dialogues from the past, with the ultimate goal of blaming the writer's parents for ( Read more... )

...and she got paid to do it ( Read more... )