[Originally posted on Feb 12, 2012. This was a somewhat viral post at the time, thanks to it being cross-posted on Jezebel. Re-reading it, I’m saddened thinking about what has since happened to her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, and I’m sad that nothing in internet posting has changed in four years. If anything, it’s gotten worse…] […]
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Choose Your Own Adventure: The F’ed up Predestination Edition
[Originally posted on April 2, 2012] Even though I didn’t go to church until I was in high school, I was always very spiritual and religious. I wanted to know the right path to follow and do the right thing. I read my bible, I read about other religions; I tried to make sense of […]
Angels Landing
One of my favorite things about hiking is it provides me with endless metaphors for life. The most common one I think of is when you’re hiking a mountain, and you feel like you’re in the final turn, but it turns out there are several more switchbacks to traverse. It’s that feeling that you’re never […]
Mental Health Parity: This is a Really, Really Good Thing
Image courtesy of antpkr / FreeDigitalPhotos.net There is a new regulation going into effect on the national level that is going to help millions upon millions of Americans: insurance companies will be required to treat mental health and substance abuse the same as general physical ailments. This is huge. And it makes me want to […]
2013 Bucket List: Get the Funk Out
At the beginning of 2012, I decided to create a bucket list of things to accomplish for the year. Looking at the original blog post, I actually didn’t do so bad: Start an international cooking club Did I do it? YES! It was a hit, and I had a blast experimenting with different dishes – […]
Help Me Understand
It’s easy to sit here and type out my opinions. It’s easy to let the rage and frustration I feel take over and shut myself off from the world until the latest tragedy becomes old news and we’re back to talking about Anne Hathaway’s crotch shot at a premiere or Lindsay Lohan’s legal troubles. I […]
Taking Inventory of Beliefs
The events over the past week have left me largely speechless. Like many of you, senseless tragedies like the shooting in Aurora remind me of how little I understand in this world. As someone who is agnostic and will remain agnostic until the day I die, the beliefs I hold and do not hold are […]
The Depression-Anxiety Club
Welcome to the Depression-Anxiety Club. Here we celebrate the cycle of self-defeating behavior exhibited by all of our members. I know Depression-Anxiety sounds like an oxymoron, but these two problems actually go hand-in-hand. It’s kind of like Professor Xavier and Magneto are having a chess match in your head, except it’s far less awesome. Here […]
A Ghost in the Corporate Machine
I stared at the tiny little pill of salvation in my hand. My 70-hour-a-week job had me exceptionally stressed out to the point where it kept me up at night. I needed something other than a stiff drink to help me get some sleep so I could at least get 6 hours of sleep in […]
Fashion Intervention Team!
Towards the end of spring semester of my freshman year at college, I learned an important lesson: when your life is falling apart, you need something simple and superficial to yank you out of your funk, even if it’s for only a day. Now realistically, life wasn’t really falling apart; my psyche was merely experiencing […]