My love for Disney songs runs pretty deep. There’s a waist-high window where I wait tables, and my favorite thing to do is to open it with both hands, keep a far off look on my face, and sing, “Little town, it’s a quiiiiet village, every day, like the one before.” Nostalgia certainly plays a … Continue reading escapelust
I spend a lot of time thinking about space. When I think to look up, it's always there for me. Planets, stars, black holes, supernovae, comets. Maybe it’s because I’m an Aquarius, maybe I’m weird, or maybe I think about whatever the hell I want to think about (all of the above). I do leave … Continue reading spacehead
"Coincidence is the language of the stars. For something to happen, so many forces have to be put in action." --Paulo Coelho One of my favorite episodes of "This American Life" is number 489, “No Coincidence, No Story!” In the episode, they dive into why people put so much stock into coincidences, how it makes … Continue reading coincidence
If Dumbledore and Hagrid somehow melded into a different, beautiful human, that different, beautiful human would be Greg. Shaggy, boisterous, solemn, brilliant, divinely thoughtful, passionate, truly loud. He might have been 6'5, 240 lbs., but he was a gentle giant. He somehow got out of Vietnam and into old age with a craggy face and … Continue reading the regular chronicles: Greg
I recently came across 13-year-old-me's New Year's resolutions. It was January 1st, 2001, and one of the fourteen resolutions I made that year was to journal every day. And I did it. Every day. For 6 months. So, it didn't last. I didn't stick to any of them (except #9, but it didn't work). Even … Continue reading new year’s matters
Britany Jean Golden 