life – The Unplug Initiative

Searching for Significance

I crave significance. Why I do isn’t very important. When I say crave significance, I mean, from a young age, I have wanted my life to matter in a profound way. I fear being insignificant or meaningless. Through the years, I have tried all kinds of ways to create meaning. When I was aContinue reading “Searching for Significance”

How I Realized that I Don’t Have to be an English Major

Ever since I was a kid, writing in little composition books and typing up stories in Word Document 1996, I knew what I was going to do with my life. Friends and family alike praised my writing ability. Writing was far from my only interest, but no one was praising the collages I had pastedContinue reading “How I Realized that I Don’t Have to be an English Major”

Down, but not Derailed

What’s that famous quote that says something like, “Life is what happens when you’re busy trying to write articles for deadlines and get school assignments done”? Well, it’s been a fitting summary of the past few days. But work and deadlines aren’t the most important thing. I have no cool articles or videos to shareContinue reading “Down, but not Derailed”

Today’s Re-Plug

This is my son in our homemade obstacle course. It was a blast! I took a break from assignments and article writing to have some good, old-fashioned play time. The day has been a focused and productive one, though I have been hyper-focused on work and school, no endeavors into interesting topics or discoveries today.Continue reading “Today’s Re-Plug”

Re-Plug: What I Connected to Today

Okay, if your first response is, “Big deal, you did your freaking laundry,” you’d be correct. But you don’t understand. My laundry basket is a perpetual cycle of taking out clothes I want to wear, then filling it back up with clean clothes once I finally wash them. However, it always remains half-full. Today, forContinue reading “Re-Plug: What I Connected to Today”

Today’s Re-Plug

My living room is clean and organized! This looming to-do list item kept getting pushed off with the excuse that my child would just destroy it again roughly 2 minutes later. It makes me feel good though to de-clutter the place–and I hauled off a few things he no longer plays with in the process.Continue reading “Today’s Re-Plug”