Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. – Paul Tournier I have a secret. A dark and shifting, wormy secret… All right, maybe I hyped that up a little bit. But I do have a secret—one that I’ve been carrying around for the last two years. That is, until I recently learned that it’s far…
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…
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. — Nietzsche We have a serious tendency to overestimate how many people agree with us. Whether it is on behavioral choices, personal characteristics, or even preferences, like being a dog-person vs. a…
We are our choices. – Jean-Paul Sartre I once had a professor in undergrad begin a new class by saying, “So you know, I’m rather opinionated. But I make up for it by always being right.” Although my dad has never explicitly said such a thing, I’m sure he would find it rather agreeable. In…
Our understanding is correlative to our perception. – Robert Delaunay This last week, I went from the sub-zero temperatures in Columbus, OH to shirtless strolling on the sands of Long Beach, CA for a social psychology conference. Oh, how glorious that golden sun doth be! But speaking of glorious, golden things we all hope to…
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. — Matt Groening For people in romantic relationships, you probably realized that this last Saturday was Valentine’s Day. For people not in romantic relationships, you also probably realized it was Valentine’s Day,…