It is always cheaper to fly out of New Orleans than Jackson. When I was making summer travel plans, I booked the cheapest flight out of New Orleans, which happened to be leaving New Orleans at 6:45 this morning. My roommate had agreed to drive me, but neither of us were interested in leaving Jackson …
I decided somewhere in my first year of teaching that I wanted to teach for a third year. My reasoning was simple – I knew that as a first year teacher I was below average (which is putting it nicely) and that as a second year teacher I would be about average, and that in …
I turned 26 three weeks ago, which sparked a significant realization for me: I’m not that far away from being thirty. In fact, I am actually closer to being thirty than I am to being twenty, even though me being twenty doesn’t feel that long ago. Still, there’s time to do a lot in the …
Linchpin My friend Devon lent this book to me a while back. Also, to be honest, I did not finish this book until today, May 4. This was a really worthwhile read – it’s nonfiction, and it’s about the way that ordinary employees can go above and beyond in their positions and do innovative things …
Be Here Now This book was all about the benefits of meditation, and the sell it well – I really believe that there are tangible benefits to meditating. And then, at the end of the book, they say about how it’s a bad idea to try and start meditating on your own and how you …
Bad with Money by Gaby Dunn I am a huge fan of Gaby Dunn’s podcast, Bad with Money. I’ve also been following Dunn’s work since, um, her 100 Interviews project, which she did in 2010-2011 and appears to be removed from the internet, which makes me feel old. Bad with Money was a book I …
The Billfold shut down this week. I started reading The Billfold when I was in my second year of design school. I was 19 and deeply unhappy with the state my life was in, and I also knew that I was a freak who wanted to talk about money and read about money and learn …
Annie Spratt When I was nine, my house burned down. For the next two or three years, it was hard for me to fall asleep at night. I would stay up all night reading and going online and listening to Harry Potter audiobooks and listening to NPR. “It’s five o’clock GMT, and you’re listening to …
I ran the Mississippi River Half Marathon today! I’m very satisfied with how I did, but also… I did not anticipate how cold it would be – I was expecting high 40’s, given the weather forecast. I brought tights to Greenville just in case, but I really don’t like to run in tights – I …
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee I did not like this book that much. I read To Kill a Mockingbird when I was a freshman in high school, and I thought it was pretty good. In Go Set a Watchman, Scout/Jean Louise is an adult, living in New York, who comes home to visit …