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 [...]

Addicted

Hello, my name is Mer and I’m an Internet Addict. (The first step is admitting the problem, right?) Last week, for no apparent reason that I could discern, the Internet connection at work failed. This is strange for a couple of reasons: (1) I work on a college campus, which means there are some pretty [...]

The Ghosts of Mers Past

Two weeks ago, I started my vacation. I didn’t go anywhere exotic or outlandish – I was barely far from home. I went to the beach in Rhode Island, at the very bottom of my tiny home state, to a small town that I discovered I still knew quite well. Little Compton, RI isn’t a [...]