One Lucky Kitten: A Lesson in Fate
A face on the highway One Sunday afternoon, my sister and I were coming home from the mall when we ran into a little incident on the highway. The mall we visited was a bit out of the way so it wasn’t...
View ArticleDoes My Handwriting Make Me A Bad Person?
The one time I had my handwriting analyzed was an experience that has haunted me for years. What started as a fun activity to pass the time during a long day turned into an interaction with a total...
View ArticleLanguage, Memory, and the Mandela Effect
A brief overview of the Mandela Effect As the world gets weirder, humanity continues to search for ways to explain its weirdness. Once we understand that weirdness, then maybe we can find a way to...
View ArticleAnticipating vs. Reminiscing Through Life
Living in the moment I recently took a poll on Twitter to find out if my followers tend to live in the past, anticipate the future, or live in the moment. The results were small but surprisingly even...
View ArticleWhat Feisty Little Girls Teach Us in Children’s Literature
There’s this girl. Her name is Molly Bright. She’s 10 years old, and she wants to be a comic book artist when she grows up. But after a freak accident, she goes blind in one eye, and the bullying,...
View ArticleMaking a List on New Year’s Eve to Combat Negative Thoughts
One New Year’s Eve, after one of the worst years of my life, I was sitting around waiting for the ball to drop and thinking back for the millionth time about all of the terrible things that had...
View ArticleWhat Makes Us Smile?
I’m waiting for my six-week-old nephew to smile. Not a reflex smile. I want to see a genuine, gum-baring “I’m happy,” smile. Most of us come into this world crying, but we have to learn how to smile....
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