Word of the Week Archive

Outlet

When I was a senior in high school, I wrote a poem about the death of my grandfather. It wasn’t anything earth-shattering, but we had been studying the works and words of e.e. cummings in my English class, and I liked the way his poems looked on paper, so I decided to give poetry-writing a whirl...

Change

When I was a senior in high school and applying to colleges, I had one major criterion: the college had to be in a state I had never in lived before. Which, honestly, gave me a lot of choices since up until that point I’d only ever lived in one city. In one house. I went to school with the same kids from the time I was 5 years old until I was 18. I went to the same mall each weekend, the same movie theater, swam with the same swim team each summer. ..

Interpretation

So much of our perception, emotion and attitude depends on how we interpret experiences, events and interactions in our lives. Almost everything you experience in the world is relative, and our subjective interpretation is incredibly determinative. ..

Morale

Readers, forgive me, for I’m about to say some things that might shock you. ..

Procrastinate

I am going to be completely honest with you. I am writing these very words a mere few hours before they will be published. Hi there, I’m a procrastinator, and I am not proud of it...

Habit

Did you know that you have do to something over 20 times before it becomes a habit? And not like, 20 times over the span of an entire year, but 20 times within, say, a month or two. Pretty crazy, huh?..

Hero

What or who is a hero exactly? ..

Idea

Ideas are insanely powerful things. We have a saying in my family. Whenever we see or hear about something phenomenal or moving, for example, someone inevitably blurts out, “It just takes an idea…” And it’s totally true. ..

Spontaneous

I can count the number of things I’ve done spontaneously on one hand. Actually, on three fingers. Spontaneity scares me. ..

Purpose

Next to the little note about no whining, there’s another little note taped to my bathroom mirror. It says “Be the best each moment so that each day becomes the best.” It’s something I read a long time ago which has always stuck with me. Seeing this mantra each morning as I brush my teeth motivates me to approach my day with energy and purpose. ..

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