Ann Althouse, now a law professor at the university of Wisconsin, studying for her final law exam in 1981. Taken from her blog. When it comes down to it, there’s always one question that needles me until every thread of thought and belief come unwound: Why? — The past few months, I’ve been slowly wending [...] Read more »
Light slips in through cracks, illuminating the longhouse provided for us in Karen. For more serene photographs of Thailand, click here. In the mountains outside the city of Chiang Mai lies a series of villages which are merely referred to as Ban Mai in Thai. To the people of these villages, our guide Samruam (Sam [...] Read more »
Part of the Manila Skyline sits idly in the mid-day heat by the Pasig River. For more heat stifled pictures of the Philippines, click here. NOTE: This entry was written the afternoon of August 11 during a two day stop in Manila. Because my laptop ran out of batteries attempting to get a signal in [...] Read more »
“You have to know the past to understand the present.” -Dr. Carl Sagan I cried tonight. I’m sure no one noticed the few tears that raced down my cheeks to find safe harbor among the bristles on my chin. I couldn’t quite focus on my reflection in the bus window. Instead, I watched the sun [...] Read more »
So there I was, sitting around with nothing to do at work. Again. Since I’ve gotten in trouble twice in the last month for reading comic books on the job, I figured there was nothing left to do but grab that copy of Entertainment Weekly that sits so alluringly on our counter enticing the star-struck [...] Read more »
My week has been so full of strange strange things, from Daylight Savings changes and no sleep to opportunities in life’s upswing. And so I look to take the next great leap. Once again, Inquiring Minds was dumped because of lack of guests, I hate to say. I always seem to find one and get [...] Read more »
People just don’t seem to appreciate true beauty anymore. Perhaps, at 22, I shouldn’t be waxing nostalgic yet, but I know I don’t appreciate beauty nearly enough. I have an affinity for ballet and art museums not for their cultural value — I really could care less about what these things say about the author’s [...] Read more »
Today, I walked. The sun shone and heat scalded as I walked; from here to halfway there; from halfway there back to here; from here to there at which I stayed till time had passed. Along the way, I saw a pair of squirrels. They weren’t fighting or fleeing as I walked past. The merely [...] Read more »
I, by all accounts, am a slacker. I was a slacker in elementary school, never doing my homework, but helping my friends do theirs. I was a slacker at boarding school, doing just enough so that I could avoid trouble and even gain some privileges reserved for the “good” students. I was a slacker in [...] Read more »
What are friends for? Seriously. In recent months, I catch myself not living up to what I expect of my friends and that makes me wonder whether I’m making mistakes in choosing my friends or are my friends making a mistake in choosing me. The first part of this question is what are friends for. [...] Read more »