Move on down, move on down the road…
My dad told me one time, after a comfortable, pleasantly silent 5 minutes on a daily drive to 10th grade, that: “Change happens. There are people who drive change and get where they want to go, and...
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…And Be Merry.
Sometimes the best weeks are the hardest to write about because anything I come up with sounds like a translation of “YAY ME!” I know that gets old fast, so I try to tame my giddy excitement into...
View ArticleJiminy Cricket!
I get artistic when I’m exhausted, and all of the colorful clothes in my laundry basket begin to appear as beautiful as the necklaces I have hanging around the statue of a woman’s head and shoulders on...
View ArticleOnly One, but Still One
Man, sitting at home alone on a Saturday night at 10 o’clock is proving to be a stellar way to spend my time. I’m listening to Electric Light Orchestra, Facebook-stalking the people who spoke at a...
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Onward I Go!
Every single new position of leadership is overwhelming, even though I know team building formulas like “forming->storming->norming->conforming->performing”. Something about the polite,...
View Article10 Ways to Maximize Your Summer and Still Have Fun
1. Set up an informational interview with a company that interests you. 2. Catch up on popular movies or TV shows that turn into networking talking points. 3. Pretend to be a tourist where ever you...
View ArticleFeudalism? Or Modern America?
I’m about a day behind on some of my newspaper reading, but what I caught this morning (which was published yesterday) really enraged me–and that’s hard to do! While Reed College was the subject of...
View ArticleAggies Say Hell No to Talk of Perry for University President
Here is the email I wrote Dr. Murano in the wake of yesterday’s resignation: Dr. Murano, Just wanted to thank you for your service to Texas A&M during obviously difficult times. While I am certain...
View ArticleMine No More
Just in from Honduras, life is sweet and sad at once. While there are things to enjoy about every place and face, something about the hospitality among the world’s poorest just reels one in and...
View ArticleFreedom Within
One of the most valuable things I’ve learned from a class at A&M came in INFO 210. I wasn’t looking for it, and I don’t use it as a computer skill. Rather, the idea that data and information are...
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Connect. Learn. Inspire. Lead. [Monster DLP Dallas '09]
One thing I really enjoy is going to leadership conferences, retreats, workshops, camps–whatever. I love the feel of spending 2 hours learning about something, shifting into a different gear and...
View ArticleMaking More than a Difference
Having been raised on fried chicken, Dr. Pepper and as much butter as can be mixed into any dish possible, health and fitness are far from my forte. This summer, however, I have taken to doing...
View ArticleBusiness and a Boy
Having always been the sort to enjoy cooking or dancing on rainy days, beautiful notes in songs or particularly poetic phrases in books or conversation, I’ve been accused of being a Romantic more than...
View ArticleHeavy Hearted
I witnessed a man die today, and I will never be the same. The wreck happened at the corner of Wellborn and Joe Routt, and when I saw a man laying lifeless on the concrete of an intersection, my...
View ArticleNeeding Some Shut Eye!
I am officially busy. And tired. And not thinking in the most poetic phrases even though 80% of my resume revolves around writing/communication skills. Forgive me. Between selling advertising space...
View ArticleA Little Bit of Life Lately
I am now a HeadStart aide in College Station ISD and the experience is already teaching me a thing or two. For one, I have a whole new appreciation for friends who have only known the working college...
View ArticleLittle A Against Big A
I have a friend who’s 4 years old and his struggles pierce my heart and haunt my dreams. I tell him, “Here at school, we walk in the halls, not run.” He looks up at me, wild eyed and full of energy,...
View ArticleHo-hum.
Ugh! I just want to hide today. I am not working with the school district anymore, and while that is definitely a good thing, I have the most troubling dreams that keep me from feeling rested, no...
View ArticleThe Edge (of Sanity!)
Serving as Editor-in-Chief of The Edge is the most glorious pain in the rump I’ve experienced in college. It’s wonderful and awful, inspiring and sleep depriving. For one, I’m trailing two of the...
View ArticleFootball and My Fellow Man
When I woke up this morning, I was attempting to capitulate over recent stress induced by student organizations so I could enjoy the day cooking with my boyfriend, thinking of things I am grateful for,...
View ArticleFrom Riches to Rags and Back
Cold weather and Christmas carols let me know that another holiday is around the corner. I am so excited to finish a semester of school, put the finishing touches on an issue of The Edge and curl up...
View ArticleWantin’ Some More Wheaties
I’m not interested in losing hope or listing reasons why life is “so hard”, but this semester has been a lesson in taking the good with the bad—letting wheat and chaff grow side by side until the end,...
View ArticleYou’ve Got [A New Year.]: “Movie”ing into 2010
MAY I ALWAYS BE BRAVE (AND LIKE IT). “Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life – well, valuable, but small – and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven’t been...
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Ready to Go
Man alive, I love a fresh start! I’m taking classes toward my Social Studies 8-12 teaching certificate this semester (made possible by the University Studies Business degree plan, available here:...
View ArticleErosion
Something about rain sliding down the window sills right next to my bed makes me want to sleep all day. The minute I start thinking about designing another page of the magazine I’m working on, though,...
View ArticleWords and Music
While my schedule this semester hasn’t permitted as many trips to Mesquite as I would like, watching an interview with black country singer Darius Rucker turned into hymn night on the Grand Ole Opry...
View ArticleEven Though We Ain’t Got Money…
Leaving the Harvard campus and waiting on a subway to arrive, I listened as a man played his guitar and sang in the Boston underground. “Even though we ain’t got money, I’m so in love with you,...
View ArticleBuilding a Bridge and Getting Over It
After months of seeing signs that I’d soon buckle under pressures I have long known how to manage yet for which struggled to find strength to conquer, I broke down (or “woman-ed up”) and went to the...
View ArticleMy “Get it together, Emily” plan
My brain is on overdrive and my heart is fried. The past month has been a whirlwind of traveling to Mexico City and Boston, having an enormous project fall through, parting ways with what once...
View Article10 Simple Things I’m Celebrating on April 15
Sometimes life is taxing–especially on April 15. It’s easy to focus on old struggles that still produce new setbacks, or even to indulge websites like FML.com with the sort of groaning acceptance that...
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