Word of the Week Archive

Planning

Boy, am I a planner! Sometimes it pays off, but often it takes more time to plan than to just do. If you’re the same way - or are close to someone like me - you may laugh at all the planning done for actions that may be better off just happening however they come out. ..

Uncertain

I studied Art History in college. And whenever I told people this, they’d always ask me what I wanted to do with my degree. Not how much I enjoyed my studies (more than words can express), not which art movement I love the most (Abstract Expressionism), not what drew me to Art History in the first place (gut feeling)...

Did you know… that you actually don’t have to say yes to everything?!..

Horizon

We often hear that looking forward is better that looking back. I think living in the present requires that we value the experiences and lessons from our past, as memories, while having a vision and attitude to take to the future. And all of this should go towards making the present the best it can be...

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?..

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