Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. — Charles M. Schulz For a season so known for gaiety and sun, this summer—at least in Ohio—has been one of dejection and rain. Well. Not that bad. But it as has rained a lot. However, nothing brightens a dreary day better than…
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. — Andy Rooney I’ve been known to be an expressive guy—telling a story last night, I accidentally karate chopped a friend’s face. But I mean, come on—when has good gesticulation ever hurt a story? But not everyone is so wantonly wavy with…
I am human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to me. – Terrence (the slave turned Roman playwright) Sometimes when speaking to others, the monumental illogicality of their words almost necessitates they came from a different culture. Like seriously: How could anyone ever dislike peanut butter? But beyond these more superficial differences between cultures—the clothes,…
A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he’s persuasive. — Demetri Martin It’s been a little over a week since my return to the US, and let’s just say the Amazon I am now exploring is not the Amazon I wish I were exploring. But you all don’t pay…
Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta I’m back, baby. After two weeks in Peru, wading through a city of stray but domesticated cats, believing we were stranded in the middle of endless sand dunes, taking rickety planes over ancient ruins, hiking through mountains by moonlight, eating guinea pig,…
Those who command themselves, command others. — William Hazlitt It’s not easy having a brother in the Naval Academy. It’s even less easy when that brother is graduating this Saturday, your parents are falling all over him (even though you just got your master’s degree), and he’s twice the muscle size as you as your…