2011 in Review, Part One

Last December, I participated in Reverb, an online initiative that gave bloggers prompts so that they could reflect on the past year and look forward to the new one. Reverb wasn’t back this year, but I still liked the idea of reflecting on the past year, so I’m borrowing the prompts from last year and [...]

The Dubious Honor of Fame

We all want to be remembered. You don’t want to look back on your life and realize you haven’t done anything remarkable or anything worth remembering. It doesn’t have to be something spectacular. Maybe it’s just knowing that you were a good parent who raised a good child. Maybe you had a career that was [...]

Unexpected

In the Beatles’ song “Beautiful Boy,” John Lennon sings: “life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” Today, I was going to write about my blog’s 2-year birthday. Instead, I’m writing about something else. This week, for me, was a crash course in understanding how exactly true that statement is. I’m [...]