In life, there are events that come along that make you realize you are headed down the wrong path. The decisions you've made and the circumstances you've allowed to run your life are no longer working in your best interest. On March 27th, I had one of those moments:

While… Read full post »

I acknowledged a simple yet startling truth today. Christmas makes me sad. Not in an emo sort of way, nor in an ironic “Christmas makes me sad because everyone else is so happy” kind of way.

Christmas no longer has the power to make the bad things go away… Read full post »

My best friend Heather got married on Saturday. The ceremony was beautiful and personal, and though in my estimation there were close to 200 guests in attendance, it felt intimate. Seeing my friend walk down the aisle with her mother brought me to tears. She was absolutely glowing; never have I… Read full post »

It's been entirely too long since I updated this thing, so I wanted to write a boring recap of what has been going on in my life.

In September, I took a week-long temporary position at Staples, Inc. headquarters in Framingham, MA. I was assigned to proofread their 2010 catalog -… Read full post »

Is it really just the economic uncertainty that hangs over all of us, or are people getting angrier?

The other night, my boyfriend and a friend of ours were going out to dinner. As we walked toward my friend’s car, we passed the time with the usual friendly… Read full post »

My diploma from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst hangs in a cherry wood frame above my desk. It is a reminder of my former life, the four years I spent pursuing my degree in biology and doing independent research in a biochemistry lab. It is also a reminder of the four years… Read full post »

There was another town hall meeting tonight in Dartmouth, Mass., this time starring U.S. Congressman Barney Frank. While many in attendance did seem determined to do nothing but yell and disrupt the meeting, thereby dashing any hopes of civil discourse, there were no doubt many people who had honest… Read full post »

The past few days in Cambridge, MA have been brutal - hot and oppressively humid. It was the perfect week for the A/C in my car to cease working properly. Excellent.

Last night, however, after the heat of the day had passed, the air changed a bit and it actually… Read full post »

Is it just me, or is this health care debate getting a little out of hand? I don't even think you can call it a debate anymore. All I see is both sides of the issue refusing to budge from their position and no one in the middle offering alternative plans.… Read full post »

I'm going to singlehandedly destroy a gay stereotype. I've always felt that stereotypes are meant to be defeated, so let me try now:

 I hate antiquing.

I do not think antiquing is fun. For one thing, I find it a touch morbid to be rifling through the belongings of dead people,… Read full post »

Tonight, I was talking with my mother about the passing of Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Her funeral was today about a town over from where we are at our family's summer cottage in Yarmouth, MA. Shriver pioneered the Special Olympics, and many credit her with changing the way society treats the mentally… Read full post »

So I've been keeping a blog for close to a year now. Most of that time, however, I neglected my duties and have only been keeping up wih fairly regular posting since about March or April. My other blog is at patadcock.com, but I didn't feel as though I was reaching… Read full post »