The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. — Albert Einstein This week, I had one of the more grueling experiences of my life: job interviews. Most of us have been there (except for my brother), where you’re sitting in a hotel room, three faculty members lounged on the bed, you…
You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be. — Marianne Williamson Today’s topic took a bit of courage for me to write about. It’s hard to put any version of yourself on the Internet that isn’t perfect, our strong social motivations always wanting to portray ourselves from…
The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle A little over 30 years ago, residents of Sitka, Alaska, a small city with just over 9,000 people, thought their dormant volcano, Mount Edgecumbe, was erupting. As black smoke billowed from the crest, the city went into a panic, eventually notifying the National Coast Guard…
If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Cesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I dare say, envied Hercules, who never existed. – Bertrand Russell To the astute reader—or to the one familiar with calendars—today is my first ever, late blog entry. Gasp! “I don’t believe it!” “How could you?” Or as…