Articulate an opinion, commands the essay prompt. Am I worthy enough to have an opinion? Don't we lift those, wholesale, from bloggers, these days? It's much easier to poke holes in the arguments of others than to make them yourself. Safer, too. Compare quantities A and B. I'm an engineer, dammit, this should be [...]
Tag: real talk
Decisions
I seem to have continued my summer-streak of not writing much. It's not from lack of thoughts, but rather an abundance of them. I keep wanting to write the same post over and over again, from slightly different angles, and just end up writing nothing. I don't want to be repetitive, even though the web [...]
Ballet, and Me
I have a complicated relationship with my first art. My mom put me in little-kid dance classes when I was 3, in the hopes of making her uncoordinated daughter graceful--or so she claims. Every year she would ask me if I still wanted to do dance, and every year I said yes. I kept saying [...]
Punching
Hi everyone. Time for some more Real Talk. I feel a bit like a wilted puppy--a phrase that sounds like a mixed metaphor unless you have ever had a dog and scolded it. Their whole body melts down, tail drooping, eyes sad, ears tucked back. That's how I feel right now. I read a lot [...]
Real Talk
Real Talk time, everyone. I have a story, and it's my story. It's not scandalous, or click-baity, but I'm having some existential angst need to talk about it. I want to be a professional dancer. There. I said it. Believe it or not, that's a phrase I've danced (ha) around saying outright for near on [...]
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