I used to think I knew quite a bit about love. Turns out I don’t know as much as I thought I did.I used to think that a first love had the most staying power. Its innocence, gut-wrenching yearning and raw, stinging pain when things went sideways w…

When I moved, I felt like I had three strikes against me: I was blonde, and a chick, and from California. It would stand to reason that these weren’t strikes at all, being that I’d spent nine months interviewing with them and they knew exactly wha…

“You know, the Greeks didn’t write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: ‘Did he have passion?’” – Dean Kansky in Serendipity I’m pretty sure I’ve quoted this elsewhere in Thanky, so please pardon the repetition. I didn’t part…

I’m not sure if it had been that way from the moment I got dressed, or if it happened sometime later during the course of the day, but I knew one thing: my zipper was down. The funny thing about a zipper being down, or someone pointing out that yo…

I’m sure the world has had its faults for centuries, and maybe its issues these days just feel more in-your-face and plentiful thanks to the many news outlets, social media outlets, and every other kind of outlet that covers them in what feels lik…

Every two weeks, I buy myself flowers. I like the satisfaction of taking a giant, cheap, messy, store-bought bouquet from its cellophane home, cathartically pruning, snipping and making sense of its chaos, then arranging the freshly-trimmed, clean…

Once upon a time, there were two best friends. Paper-pusher seemed to define one, while the other was firmly rooted in a more creative, glamorous role. On the surface, they could be known as Boring and Excitement. Years went by with these definiti…

Do you ever have evenings where all your productivity feels like it has dried up, or nights when things that you’d normally do to pass the time seem full of a whole lot of nothing? No good movies on TV, only reruns of stuff I’ve already watched; I…

A cold front moved in yesterday, and by evening, low-level clouds were rapidly gathering in the sky. I stepped outside last night for a few moments, and church bells were chiming in the distance. Their ringing had a solemn, almost mourning sound. …

Have you ever been in a situation and thought, “There’s a reason this is happening right now”? I found myself talking to a gentleman today at work — a gentleman with whom I’ve rarely ever spoken, aside from the occasional hallway hello. This afte…