One Year Later, A Little Bit Smarter

Welcome to the new and (hopefully) improved Ordinary Mer. There are still some minor things I want to tweak, but for the most part, this is it. Almost a month ago, I realized I needed to take a break from writing, not just for work (though that was my primary reason), but also for myself. [...]

A Crisis of Existential Proportions

“To be, or not to be – that is the question.” Hamlet might have been on to something. After all, at some point, we all question our own existence. What are we here for? What is our purpose in life? What am I meant to do? Now, it seems, those same existential questions are infiltrating [...]

Sharing a Find

I don’t often write about my job or even the industries I’m familiar with simply because it was not my intention to start to niche blog about a particular area of expertise (I had already done that with my book blog and one niche blog is enough, at least for now). But from time to [...]