thoughts

  • Coffee Game

    Coffee Game

    It’s six steps from my desk to the microwave. But I probably take a thousand steps for coffee every day…

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  • Remembering Rachel Corrie

    It’s been 13 years since Rachel Corrie was murdered in Gaza while protecting Palestinian homes from demolition. In the ensuing time since her death, she’s become a beacon of humanitarian work for people all over the world. She’s been a personal hero for me — I’ve admired her courage, her writing, her dedication to helping

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  • In Pursuit of Smart, Not Happy

    There are many ways in which I feel alienated from the rest of my human peers. I love Hillary Clinton. Literally everyone else in the world seems to hate her. I don’t like dogs, and that’s “weird.” I actually prefer salamanders. Like, if everyone who has a dog had a salamander instead, I would be

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  • In Defense of Slow

    In Defense of Slow

    I have been ruminating over writing this for a couple of weeks – just one more reason to write it! I have had a slow Christmas day: got up and started some breakfast – a traditional Christmas bubble loaf of doughy, cinnamon cream cheese goodness that my family makes every year, then good coffee. We

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  • New Year, Ready or Not

    Now that we’ve made it over the first end-of-year Holiday hump, my belly a food lump, I’ve decided that some things have to change next year. This year has been a good run – a fun one, not a rat race, of sorts. New city, new jobs, no job, what now? On the chopping block

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