This time last year, I went on my first meditation retreat. It was a 10-day Vipassana silent retreat, which my boyfriend calls “meditation boot camp”, because I couldn’t bring anything: no books, no journal, no phone, no computer, no facebook, no twitter. I couldn’t even talk or make eye contact with my fellow retreat goers.
“You’re [...]
I’m frantically typing, though I have been silently composing this post in my head for a few hours, and that’s exactly the thing I want to write about.
You see, I’m at this conference today. Because I have poor long-distance eyesight, I normally sit close to the stage. Today I was out chatting for too long [...]
I’ve seen a couple Hotmail ads popping up around town and have managed to turn a blind eye, until recently when I got bombarded by them at SeaTac Airport. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, lucky you. You must not be the target audience or, “lifestyle fit” for “The New Busy”, according to [...]
I’ve been interviewing, and I’ve been asked open-ended and broad questions such as, “Tell me about yourself”, and “What do you want to do?”. When I was fresh out of college, I remember gushing, “I want to work with smart people!”; or identifying myself with my degrees, “I am a Business Major”, “I am an [...]
Hair has a special place in our culture, for better or for worse. For some reason, we can get pretty obsessed with hair.
I posted a quick status update on my Facebook, saying, “This whole business of having bangs that kinda are but kinda aren’t seemed like a good idea at the time”. It was just [...]