When I was a kid, I remember Jared from Subway, who, in commercials, claimed he lost over 200 pounds just by eating Subway sandwiches and constantly presented before and after photos of his progress. …
The whole concept of life hacking is fraught with over-promising small adjustments that somehow change your life. Most of these might work for others, but they don’t work for me — they include taking cold showers, using the Pomodoro technique, and waking up at 5 a.m. every day.
For me…
When the Visigoths sacked Rome in 410, they absolutely terrorized the famous city and the Western world. The Visigoth king, Alaric, remembers how continuous sackings of the city, by both his Visigoths tribe and the Vandals in 455 eventually contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire.
“Yeah, it was…
I’m very much against putting on a show.
As a teacher, there’s a tendency to try to do something different and do what you think your bosses want to see when they walk by. …
At work, a vaccine mandate is rolling through and will be enforced soon. I am not looking forward to the enforcement of the mandate.
While I agree with vaccine mandates, I am also a teacher and work in an incredibly understaffed profession. I just know what it would look like…
“How could you take a man’s life to save $20 on a TV?” one Walmart employee said about Jdimytai Damour, his deceased co-worker.
As a child, one local news story scared me like no other. It was a horror story about a stampede at a Walmart that killed an employee…
“Louis…how could you be so naive? Don’t you understand what’s going on in the world today?” — Legal counsel Ralph Colin to Louis Untermeyer
I first heard of Louis Untermeyer in his letters to my favorite poet, Robert Frost. …
“I have heard of such a quantity of slain that I did not believe the report and so have not recorded it,” — Historian Juvaini on the Sack of Urgench.
There were many terrible massacres throughout history. …
In retrospect, it’s safe to say my family was poor while I was growing up. We were constantly moving. My parents never made more than $40,000 per year combined before my teens.
I occasionally remembered the super embarrassing moments at Toys R’Us when I wanted a game or a toy…
Going into my recent marathon today, I did not have very confidence inspiring training. I could barely do easy runs at a seven-minute mile pace. …
