Two

(A bit delayed, thanks to life, but here nonetheless) Ordinary Mer is two! Two years ago, I decided I had so many opinions, I just had to have a place on the Internets to write them all down, where no one could interrupt me. Truth be told, I’m still not exactly sure what I’m doing [...]

Negative Nancy

No one who knows me would ever accuse me of being an eternal optimist and there was a time in my life when I was quite negative all the time (though, in retrospect, I’d argue that was less of a personality trait and more of a symptom of being a teenager), but right now I’m [...]

Ordinarily Extraordinary

“Perhaps – rare though truly extraordinary may be – there is no such thing as simply ordinary. Or perhaps there is always the capability of being extraordinary, buried inside any ordinary being.” I’ve been reading a book, titled, appropriately enough, Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin, and it has my thinking about what it means to be [...]