At some point during my freshman year, someone asked about my love language. After listening to a short list of available options, I settled on “words of affirmation”–those blessed compliments or uplifting conversations, however brief, speak to my heart in ways that nothing else can. I suppose that’s the root of my intense desire not…
Category Archives: Creation is Agonizing
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…
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…
The Blank Blue Book Last summer, my world-travelling girlfriend brought me a blank blue book from France. It was probably the blankest book I’ve ever seen; the cover (which provided the blue) lacked a title, author, even a barcode, and the pages were not lined. “This book is popular among artists and songwriters in France…
A Heavy Word 