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People Not Places
The more I grow, the more I realize our lives are a series of events, some big, some undeniably minute, but no matter how small, these events shape us into the men and women we are. In the fall after my senior year of college I decided to backpack across Europe with my best friend…
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#140Cuse Postmortem
On Thursday, April 19th, I picked up one of my best friends from high school, Katie Lemanczyk (@klemanz), and drove up to the SU Hill. We were not alone on our early morning journey; speakers, sponsors, students and attendees were all making their way to Schine Student Center for the #140Cuse conference. #140Cuse, a social…
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Having Some Fun
I’ll be honest, sometimes it’s hard for me to just relax and let loose. I get into a project and make strides at first, but then things start to slow down, like dial-up connection slow. I just get hung up on my own ideas and perfectionism and start a downward spiral of anger and frustration.…
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Fix Christmas Lights with the Pull of a Trigger (Not a Gun)
Christmas is now only days away. If you are anything like me, I usually tend to wait to the last minute to put up decorations. That means the weekend before Christmas I can usually be found tangled in a couple strings of lights, wildly shaking and unraveling them, quickly losing my patience. It is usually…
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“Oh, how I’ve missed you Holmes” – Doctor Watson
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” – Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) With a bit of a waltzing, and what I hoped to be Holmesian, walk, I exited the theatre after seeing Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.…
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Melton Pea Coat (My First Post)
First post. Okay, inner critic is on the bench for this one or I won’t write it at all. I’ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with a witty, awesome, world altering post for the past 24 hours and I feel like I’m trying a bit too hard. So in lieu of a…