This list is based on social conventions I had no hand in. If I had that kind of power, divas would rule Earth and the unfashionable would be living in a bubble in space.
1. Mooing at a funeral
2.
Resignation. “The acceptance of something undesirable but inevitable.”
I believe resignation is the saddest emotion one can experience, and it’s almost as sad to witness it in someone else as it is to experience it firsthand. With anger, there is
I had the privilege of attending the National Science Writers Conference this weekend, which was conveniently about a forty minute drive from where I live. The membership heavily tilts toward science journalists, but theoretically includes anyone in the science communication
At some point, this will end. Nothing lasts forever. It will stop. It will.
Yesterday, I sat through an hour and a half of torture. And I knew I had to write about it, even though there seemed no way
I am a 50 year old man.
I have two states: fully engaged in my thoughts or mind-numbingly bored and searching for something to do. I am either focused on something or fidgeting in a limbo state. I fidget, pace,
