by jo | Oct 7, 2014 | Everyday Stories
“You can get whatever you want, but it needs to be under $3.” I was familiar with these words as my mom and dad would say them to us three kids every time we got the treat of eating out as a family at McDonalds, or even better, at Burger King. It...
by jo | Sep 30, 2014 | Everyday Stories, fitness and health, Myths & Cliches
Tackling Myths & Cliches: Whatever Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger 50 MPH speed limit. That seems fast for this road. But OK. I’ll go 50. Shoot this hill is long. I hear my dad’s mantra: “Don’t ride your breaks. They’ll burn out.” Ok, I’ll keep it near 50. 53....
by jo | Sep 23, 2014 | Everyday Stories, Travel
Today is the first day of fall. The start of a new season. Which is appropriate because my life has had many seasons of its own in the past couple years. Before now my life seasons were longer than the year seasons, but it doesn’t seem like that’s the case anymore....
by jo | Sep 16, 2014 | Everyday Stories, People I meet, Travel
I was at the post office. It was 4:40 and I needed to mail a stack of about 7 envelopes all registered mail (meaning, apparently, that I have to fill out a form for each of the already-addressed envelopes with to-from info as well as estimated value included inside,...
by jo | Sep 9, 2014 | Everyday Stories, The "New" Challenge
Last October, I had a realization that in less than a year I would be turning 25. I remembered that your pre-frontal cortex supposedly becomes fully developed by the time you are 25 years old. Meaning that it’s harder to learn new instruments, new languages, or...
by jo | Sep 2, 2014 | Everyday Stories, Travel
About six years ago now, I left my college, and then left my hometown to study abroad at a small school in Switzerland. And I mean small. I thought that I had read or been told that it was a school of about 500 people. “That’s pretty dang small,” I...