Monthly Archives: November 2012

#83: Mail a post card to PostSecret

Secrets are powerful. Yet more often than not, they do more harm than good. In fact, many methods of healing (therapy, counseling, confession) involve a person voluntarily disclosing the secrets they hold. A few years ago, I completed a process … Continue reading

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#14: Participate in a drumming event

One of my earliest musical memories is of me sitting next to my mom on a blanket at an evening outdoor concert, watching a full symphony orchestra perform spirited works like “The William Tell Overture”. I remember feeling the ‘cannon’ … Continue reading

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Cheese Curds: Revisited

Last week, just a few hours after I published my experience with List Item #79, several of my friends and family chimed in to share their POV on cheese curds. One friend explained that I hadn’t actually completed the challenge, … Continue reading

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#79: Try cheese curds

Every environment has its peculiarities.  Fifteen years ago, when I moved to the state I now call home, I had to learn the quirks of my new locale.  It wasn’t long before I realized that a sizable population of the … Continue reading

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Similarity amid diversity

One of the local grocery stores has an aisle dedicated to “ethnic” foods.  Various genres of staples, spices, and sweets each get a 4’ section of shelving – with no smooth transition from one to the next.  So Mexican tortillas … Continue reading

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#43: Go to an ethnic supermarket I have never shopped at before

This weekend I was feeling a little bored, a little restless, mildly depressed, just uneasy in general… So to help keep myself from slipping into a funk, I decided to get off my tush, get out of the house, and … Continue reading

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