Hey rockstars, I recently read Rose Hirst’s essay for Roe Magazine, Not Everything Is About You. Please Learn to Scroll, about the strange habit we seem to have developed of encountering something online that does not perfectly fit our preferences and immediately treating that as a problem. The article talks about “what-about-me-ism”: the impulse to…
Category: Being Human
Apparently, I’m Wasting My Youth
Hey Rockstars, I hope you all are having a great day. I managed to question my entire existence and then land in the same spot 24 hours later. Last night, it started with a question: had I become boring? This was not prompted by anything especially dramatic. It was actually prompted by a song (which…
I Contain Multitudes. Some of Them Are Foolish.
Hey rockstars, I was tempted to write this blog because there is nothing more “being human” than having a day where you just keep doing ridiculous little things. There are days when I am deeply impressed by my own competence: I can manage complicated projects, keep track of approximately fourteen things at once, remember obscure…
The Infrastructure of a Life
Hey rockstars, Whenever I’m in a mood then there are two Netflix movies/specials that I immediately think about: (1) Brené Brown: The Call to Courage; and (2) Dear Zindagi. Both of these are about life and reflection. The biggest thing from Brene Brown is the “story I tell myself.” And damn, as an anxious girlie,…
Sometimes I’m Moonlight and Sometimes I’m Moondust
Hey Rockstars, To continue the celestial theme, lately I have been thinking about moonlight. Apparently, my personality now consists of finding a celestial fact, becoming emotionally overwhelmed by it, and writing a thousand words about why it is secretly a metaphor for being alive. So, here we are again. Moonlight is not technically light created…
Frames of a Monsoon
Hey sweet rockstars, I’ll be honest, my last post was my favorite post of all time. I know that sounds like an exaggeration, but I promise it’s not. The last post I wrote was so unapologetically me, and it changed my life to write it, that I hesitated on how to write another one with…
Old Light and Long Orbits
Hey Rockstars, So you all know I’m big on celestial events – eclipses, moons, stars, planets, etc. And you know I’m doing my physics mini series (though I think I should make it astronomy themed…) So there are a few quotes that I can’t stop thinking about, so here goes. First, if someone were far…
On Sincerity
Hey rockstars! I’ve been wanting to blog for a while but I have been so #burntout at work that I couldn’t bring myself to, even though the sticky note of blog ideas is increasing rapidly. But today I felt compelled to write because I’ve been thinking a lot lately about sincerity. Not in a grand…
I am meant to…
Hey rockstars, It’s been a whirlwind of a week, with lots of highs-highs (one of my close friends got married this weekend to the love of her life!!) and lots of low-lows (I’m livid at the state of the world and annoyed that journalistic integrity is taking such a horrible hit). On Friday night I…
Coffee and Check-Ins 