We’ve spent the past year afraid of crowds, but crowd psychology applies to positive things, too. Take the wave, for instance.
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3 Lessons From a Failed Blog
I tried, and failed, to write a blog post about perfectionism this week. After I trashed it, I wrote down what I learned from it.
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Be Afraid, Share It Anyway
I’m about a year in at this point, and I suppose it’s time to tell you that other than these blog posts, I’ve been hoarding my work. Short stories and essays are piling up in my Google Drive like tin Pepsi signs in a Hoosier garage.
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Worlds We Want to See
What’s better than a dystopian novel or a disaster movie? A year ago, I would have said nothing. Now I’m leaning more toward hope.
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How 2020 Made Me Weird(er)
After a year of staying at home, even simple acts of going out in public seem like feats of strength.
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Getting Back to Being Bored
As a kid, I had fantastic tolerance for boredom. Over the past year, however, my boredom muscles seemed to have atrophied. That’s not good.
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Growing, Blogging, and Cringing
I found an almost twenty-year-old blog of mine this week, and it is EMBARRASSING. That’s a good thing—it means I’m not finished.
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Vitality Deprivation and Me
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I Might Hate Daylight Saving Time More Than You
No one likes Daylight Saving Time, but I might hate it a little extra. That’s because I’m from Indiana, where we didn’t observe DST until 2006.
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Diet Riot
Well, it’s still February, so we might as well talk about dieting.
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