Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

So, I am at the end of this block of classes and I have to come to terms with a horrifying realization. I really, really dislike the studying of literature. Mind you, I realize that I spent a good portion of the class sick as a dog and that has colored my perception, but I [...]

I still remember him, though it’s been many years since we’ve chatted – and even then, we didn’t know each other long. Yet I can say that at least one of those brief conversations I had with Chilean changed the course of my life. I had good intentions in those days of the early 90s, [...]

I’ve just started my second year at the University of Phoenix, Axia (or junior college) division, so I thought it would be a good time to give my opinion of the school. There is a lot of information out there, and potential misinformation, and I might as well add to it, no? Bottom line: so [...]

I’m sitting here with my headset on, but nothing coming through on them because I can’t figure out if I want to listen to/watch more TED Talks, or save some for later so that I can absorb the ones I have listened to. It’s better to save some but it’s like being parched and cracking [...]

(Yes, yes this is an odd post but, strangely, my site comes up first (at the moment) in a Google search for “luddite-ism” – who even knew that was a real way of writing that? – I am so proud, lol. Anyway, from the number of people looking for a definition of that term, I’m [...]

You know how you learn something, and you know it intellectually, you can recite the why’s and the wherefore’s of it, and can explain it to someone else – but you know, and you know you know, that you just don’t get it? Well, that was me – with any number of things (like long, [...]

i am accused of tending to the past as if i made it, as if i sculpted it with my own hands. i did not. this past was waiting for me when i came, a monstrous unnamed baby, and i with my mother’s itch took it to breast and named it History. she is more [...]

I really need a laptop. That’s one thing I’ve realized since my classes started. Of course, I knew that before, but now in order to do all the things I want to do – work on these classes, blog, renew HB and so on, I really need to be able to just pick up and [...]

English is a funny language. So many words that are spelled the same and sound the same but have different meanings – that’s gotta be pretty annoying for English language learners, I imagine. Although, from what I understand, Manderin Chinese is much worse (or, rather, much more difficult) to learn. When I was young I’d [...]

I clicked through a Google search for “old pictures” today, looking for inspiration.  I was thinking more of something “retro”. Instead I found this and thought it was interesting. It definitely qualifies as “old”. Here’s what wikipedia has to say: Old Nubian is an ancient variety of Nubian, spoken until about the 15th century AD. [...]