Come Fly With Me
Anyone familiar with 12-step programs or various philosophical guides to serene living will tell you that the key to happiness is to surrender to the moment, to change what you can, to accept what you cannot change, and to know the difference. And anyone familiar with air travel in recent years will tell you that even the Dalai Lama would …
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Tickle This: Do I Have A Tickling Fetish?
Q. I’m extremely ticklish and think I have a tickling fetish. Any advice for the future or even now?
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We Try It: Crafting with Chalk Cloth
I recently started working at an upscale craft store, which, as you can probably imagine, is quite dangerous.
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Mid-Week News
Each time I do the news, I look for one little ray of sunshine in all the bad news. And this week we have a great one. I put it at the end so when you leave, you feel a little better about the world.
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Reading Choices
As a kid, I could easily be described as a voracious reader, someone who accidentally incited a note home about reading a book in between words during a spelling test (note: I wasn’t cheating, I was utilizing vital reading time).
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Lunchtime Poll: Don’t Believe the Hype
On the heels of another Superman adaptation, I have been trying very hard to temper my expectations as to not be disappointed by yet another Zach Snyder adaptation. I really want Man of Steel to be great (because Michael Shannon! Amy Adams! Laurence Fishburne! Almost the entire supporting cast!), but I’ve seen Watchmen and I’ve seen Henry Cavill act. Both …
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But Which Revolution Was It?: A Crash Course on the History of Les Mis
Last week, a friend of mine told me about how confused she was about the references to revolution in the movie Les Misérables. Wasn’t there just one French Revolution, and didn’t it take place during the eighteenth century? And how did Napoleon Bonaparte fit into all of this? Then I realized that other people might be confused, too, so here’s a …
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Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost: Carry On
Allison Reynolds: You do everything everyone tells you to do and that is a problem. Andrew Clark: Okay, fine, but I didn’t dump my purse out on the couch and invite everyone into my problems. -from The Breakfast Club (1985)
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Traveling the World with GeoGuessr
I don’t get sucked into online games very often, and when I do, they tend to be spectacularly nerdy. I’ve signed up for free trials of Lumosity with three different email addresses and I spent a ridiculous amount of time doing Sporcle quizzes when I was studying to go on Jeopardy!, but it’s been a while since anything really grabbed …
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Before I delve any further into my own, highly subjective analysis of the absurdities of English life, I should point out that Kate Fox has done it all before. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour was first published in 2004, the year before I settled in Liverpool. I had heard about it before, but it wasn’t until …
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Writing Toolbox
Outlines have always been my personal bane. I never know what to do with them. For today, I want to talk about outlines and my frustrations with them and the benefits they bring.
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Weekly Anime Review
The week’s episodes were pretty interesting. We learned secrets in Gargantia. Chihaya got to play against the Queen. We got lots of exposition in Majestic Prince, and Yamato explores a sci-fi trope about AI.
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Ask UfYH: Microfiber Couches, Coffee Cups, and Nasty Cabinets
Q: Is there a faster way to get cat hair off of a microfiber couch than running a tiny lint roller over it a thousand times?
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