“It is worth while also, from time to time, shaking off the anesthetic of familiarity and awakening to the wonder that is really all around us all the time.”— Richard Dawkins I’ll never forget how I met Sky. It was the funniest situation. I was strolling around with Kristin one night, it was a lazy …
Category: Personal
I mean, I’m guilty of it too.
Last night, a friend forwarded me this column from the Washington Post. I definitely encourage you to read it on your own. The man who forwarded to me, I only know him as “VT Dad,” which is how he he signed off his e-mail, appended a note to his link to the article. Justin – …
The All-Terrain Wheelchair.
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 …
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 …
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 …
“Respect: to receive it, you must deliver it.”
One of my favorite, but relatively unknown quotes, has to do with respect. “To receive it, you must deliver it.” This is clearly just stating that if you want other people to respect you then you have to be certain to respect them as well. It is one of many derivatives of the golden rule. …