Jinked

Meeting people, listening to their stories, their life experiences, soaking it in and learning about the little ways in which the world works. Tiny things. Seemingly insignificant things. Eye contact across the crosswalk. The song playing one floor below my apartment. The messages in my inbox, my mailbox. The happiness and sorrow, it all awaits. I learn best from other people, even if we’re never [...]

I’ve noticed a lot of people talking about and linking various body image posts on Twitter and Facebook lately, primarily this piece which links to this, which also began circulating among friends and acquaintances. Reading them, I was thinking about body image, self-esteem, how I sometimes see and unconsciously judge people without getting to know them as a person first. There is no getting around [...]

It’s been a rough weekend. Thanksgiving and all that stuff with the family was good, but things sometimes have a way of falling apart afterward for no reason whatsoever. I would like to blame it on PMS or the short days and cold nights, thunderstorms, but it’s not always in someone’s best interest to pin blame upon other people and things. Or entities. I’ve been [...]

I stopped the frantic cleaning of my apartment to write this, so hopefully it will be brief. I was scrubbing the bathroom when the thought, “Why do we even need National Coming Out Day in the first place?” struck me. Why can’t people be open about who they love, and why do they feel the need to hide such things? Love is a beautiful thing! [...]

I have the tendency to get a little too wrapped up in things, especially when I am working. It doesn’t matter if I’m writing, editing, designing, coding, but when I am focused everything around me fades, and the importance of some things diminishes. Eating is the biggest one. I don’t know why I can so easily toss eating on the back burner. I always find [...]