I didn’t think I was going to tell my family about my recent realizations regarding graduate school, but I’m just so excited about my “awakening” I could barely contain it. After several conversations with my most trusted confidantes, it seems like the best path for me right now might be to keep working at this…… Continue reading Facing fears head-on

Paring down my wardrobe to the point at which I only use 100 hangers is a dream of mine. This goal, of course, does not encompass the clothes in my dresser, but those are mostly pajamas and workout clothes. Right now, I use 147 hangers. And underneath the bed in a storage bin, I have probably…… Continue reading Retail therapy

This post is a chronicle of my fitness journey that started back in 2013. I firmly believe that with anything, we all start at zero, and that is exactly where I started. I also believe that you have to do step one to get to step two. Exercise taught me that you don’t get to…… Continue reading From zero to fitness

One thing I’ve been working on this year is paring away the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. I think that was a quote I showed my students one time about what it means to revise writing, but I also like to apply it to my life. It’s the philosophy of the minimalism movement. For…… Continue reading Let the necessary speak

When I was 19, I took an English class on southern literature and memory. Growing up, I heard a lot about the south and memory from my mother and grandmother, so the course material spoke to me on some kind of molecular level. I was a pretty good reader, I liked the idea of teaching…… Continue reading The PhD and the ego

I wanted to start a blog because for a little more than a decade of my life I was profoundly and deeply depressed. But I am not anymore. It’s difficult for me to remember much detail from about the age of 15 to about the age of 27 because it feels like I didn’t make…… Continue reading Hello