OM Recommends: Diet Dr. Pepper

Today’s recommendation tastes more like regular Dr. Pepper. I don’t drink coffee. I never really developed a taste for it. And I like tea, but I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a tea drinker. But I also can’t get through the day without some caffeine and so I turn to my favorite diet soda of choice. [...]

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 [...]

Ten

I remember crowding into my dorm’s common room to watch the news coverage on the big screen television. I remember attending a spontaneous mass in the middle of the day, because there was literally nothing else we could do. I remember watching Pretty Woman later that night, when my friends and I were burned out [...]