I apologize for the rushed nature of this blog post but I’ve got some packing to do and some sleep to get to! A few months back I was watching this TED talk by Amos Winter, titled “The cheap all-terrain wheelchair.” Winter and his team at MIT built something called the Leveraged Freedom Chair. His …
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1 thing you didn’t know about me.
I’m really into taking blog post suggestions from friends lately. A few days ago, I made a Facebook post that was a play on a quote a friend delivered – she claimed that she knew everything that there was to know about me. Of course I noted that this wasn’t true (I’d argue that this …
Stop. Spam.
One of the smartest goals I made over the course of the winter break from academics was to STOP SPAM. In November, I began to realize that my junk mail filter would catch some things that I actually didn’t want to be junk mail. Some was actually mail from colleagues, and others were a sale …
Eileen’s Bakery
Last week, one of my best friends in the world paid a visit to Fredericksburg. She used to live in Fredericksburg when I did, and we went to high school together, but she ended up moving to Charlotte, North Carolina after that. Both business and leisure have taken me to Charlotte quite a few times …
Giving back.
On Tuesday I had a fantastic opportunity to give back in a way that I never really anticipated. A teacher from my high school Facebook messaged me back in August, and asked me if I would ever be available to chat with the group that she advises – the National Honor Society. So, I am …
Let’s look at the world a little differently.
Tonight, I want to share 3 feel good moments with you. The first is a video. The second is a photo. The third is a story. 1. I discovered this video on a friend’s Facebook wall and not only loved the music behind it (Give a Little Bit by Roger Hodgson, the voice of a band …
Pho Junkies
Hello everyone! I’ve been MIA lately with the food posts so I wanted to be sure to include this one right away. This meal was had at Pho Junkies food truck near L’enfant Plaza in Washington D.C. By the way, pho is pronounced as “fuh.” If the tag line tells you anything, they believe their …
The science behind Actively Caring.
For the students that I spoke with yesterday in Stafford High School’s National Honor Society, here’s a little bit more about the science behind Actively Caring.