Cleaning Out

I bought my first pair of TOMS Shoes on Thursday. The motivation came from several places: a friend recently dug another friend’s used TOMS out of the trash (he had sworn never to buy a pair; rummaging through someone else’s castoffs apparently doesn’t fall into that category), another friend had acquired a pair during Christmas,…

CiA 3, or “These Are My 20 Minutes”

I’m setting the timer on my phone for 20 minutes.  And… go. You see, I agonize over words.  My papers typically make excellent grades because I’ll rewrite the same sentences over and over again until it says exactly what I want to say in exactly the right words.  (For instance, that last sentence originally read…

Post a Week

WordPress issued a challenge at the beginning of the year: to post at least once a week.  In order to participate in this challenge, a blogger must: 1. Announce that s/he is doing so on his/her blog.  (Check.) 2. Use the appropriate tag (postaday2011 for chronic bloggers who don’t have the problem I have, which…

Creation is Agonizing 2, or “Why I Need a Goal”

It’s been over a week since my last (and only) post.  (Yes, I realize that it is dated December 5.  That is because, rather than deleting the generic post WordPress gave me when I opened this account, I strangely decided to edit it.  Thus, what I wrote on New Year’s Day is dated a month…