“If the student is ready, the teacher will appear!” Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

Is it weird if the teacher looks like a half-eaten fortune cookie?

Kiss your guilt good bye

Dear blogging community,

I was let go today. I’ve been working for the same company for over a year and this news was very unexpected, and heartwrenching.

For anyone who is stranded due to the hurricane-we-are-tired-of-naming

I hope this brings a small titter or guffaw.

I still want to punch the northeaster in its weatherly face.

Sandy, Stormy’s Foal

I didn’t believe the NYC hurricane hype until my lunch break Friday. As I walked through my usual route near Radio City, I was stopped abruptly in my tracks by the sight of a large, mottled-brown bird; dead by the side of the concrete fountain.

You had me at Felix Felicis. Please sir can I have some Pottermore?

It’s been awhile since I’ve become Harry Potter obsessed. That is about to change.

“You see? Even death has a heart.” ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

It is hard but necessary to write about loss. Zusak understands this so well, he made Death the narrator. Reading his book made my heart, and writing, both heavy and light in the same sentence.

“There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.” -Malcolm Gladwell

Your career should be aspirational, never complacent, and so should your clothes. We’ve all heard dress for success, and we’ve all shrugged it off as some superficial silly nonsense, especially if you are a manly man, and wearing slouchy jeans that don’t fit somehow proves you’re masculine enough not to care.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”- Pride and Prejudice

Who says you can’t WEAR your favorite books this fall?  Nook readers can download this book for free.

Kony Island: why Jason Russell should have read the Fountainhead

Oprah’s post mortem segment with Jason Russell, creator and propagator of the video Kony 2012, the 80 million viral phenomenon, was more amusing than deep.

Obamacare will protect us from zombies

WHOA BRO. In elementary terms, I started blogging because:

1.I was inspired by the book WWGD. God is great, but Google is more accessible.

2. I’d like to be more open. Open source, open book, open career(can) of worms

3. I’d love to explore digital further in the publishing world.