What A Friendly Kid!

Try To Live, Trying To Learn, Trying To Just Be Who I Am  I’m taking up the spirit of Lindy Ruff and saying it’s important to keep a short-term memory moving forward regarding what didn’t go well, capitalizing and building on what did, and just battling on to the next one, in regards to my…

There’s Just Some Things You Can’t Do Inside Those City Limits

It’s Gonna Take A Fireman To Put This Old Flame Out It’s really weird for me to have so much to write about; normally I’m a last-minute blog poster, so to have two posts in two consecutive weeks tells me that there’s a positive trend in how my thesis work is going! It also helps…

I’m Only Off To Wander Across A Moonlit Mile

Got Motion, Restrained Emotion I’ve caught myself listening to The Pretenders more thanks to “Brass In Pocket” coming on during the long, stop-and-go ride home on Monday. It’s been another one of those wrap-around, non-stop, everything is inside out and upside-down sort of weeks, but I’m loving every second of it! Chaotic energy is sometimes…

Loosen Up!

Like A Movin' Heartbeat In The Witching Hour I’m telling you, Def Leppard’s Hysteria is one of the greatest albums to come out and one of my favorites to have on at any time; in the car, working out, and while working on something when I need that extra push! “Animal” is definitely one of…

Have You Got It Together?

Writers, Prize Fighters, And Wall Street Traders I have nothing but love for New Jersey, the state I’ve always called home, but after Susan’s moving presentation and amazing memoir snippet, I had nothing but the infinite possibilities and wonder that New York has held for so many people over the years on my mind and…

It’s Gonna Get Worse If He Waits Too Long

You Take It On Faith, You Take It To The Heart  Tom Petty is absolutely correct; “The Waiting” is indeed the hardest part! But, waiting is thankfully where things have massively turned around for me. What I thought was falling behind was a lot more like being under construction; the road to actually, really feeling…

I Love You And That’s All I Really Know

Is This In My Head? I Don't Know What to Think. Someday, my thesis will have a happy ending just like Taylor Swift’s “Love Story.” (Yes, my undergraduate degree is in literature, and I do know how Romeo and Juliet actually ends. I just really love the song, and I’m in a very Valentine’s Day…

Am I Throwing You Off?

Nope. Didn’t Think So.  The feeling that my thesis is giving really drives me crazy. (I’ll cut myself off here before I end up typing a thesis-themed parody of “Promiscuous” instead of a progress report blog, and because I would hate for my musical selections to overshadow every other aspect of my project and blog,…

Tomorrow’s Getting Harder, Make No Mistake

Son, Don't Let The Man Get You! It doesn’t take a lot to feel genuine happiness. Just a flickering lamplight, notepad, static crackling on whatever station I’m tuned into, a good book or ten, and a whole lot of solitude. (I’ll add my winter break reading list to the bottom of this post!) With all…

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, Slowly Learning Life is OK

  Every street has a house with the last flickering orange porch light on at night and this cookie-cutter suburban neighborhood is no exception. The stairs that lead up to the backdoor are nearly immaculate, except for the scuff marks from fresh bike tires and skate wheels that were constantly rolled up and down, and the…