memoir – Phill 365

Day 365: finishing the lap

January 23, 2018 phillmemoir

I started my very first post of this “year” (going from birthday to birthday– sorry if I’m selfish,but this is when my year starts :P), I quoted El-P from Run the Jewels, thusly: Brave men[…]

Day 364: Starting the final reflection… kinda

January 22, 2018 phillmemoir

Every birthday I do a sort of self-audit and then make my resolutions, a full 23 days after most people (and a good two weeks after most people have given up on their resolutions, ba-zing!).[…]

Day 362: You just really don’t need to be a dick about it

January 21, 2018 phillArmchair phillosophy

The last year has been bizarre. In America, politically, things have become more and more and more contentious. Our government is currently in a state of shutdown. I’m not sure how fast that will be[…]

Day 360: The emotional cost of clutter

January 19, 2018January 19, 2018 phillmemoir

I’m going to tell you a story. This story is about a thing I call trash mountain and one of the most stressful moments that didn’t need to be a stressful moment in my life.[…]

Day 359: BooBoo Dawgs and the oddities of love

January 18, 2018 phillmemoir

I have a dog who we call BooBoo. If you followed me on social media about two years ago, you’d know that Boo had taken pretty ill and was acting erratic. We found out that[…]

Day 358: A sad teaching memory to not be a bubble, lest one be popped

January 17, 2018 phillmemoir

During my MA, I took a class with a scholar who was nearing the end of a long career. Well written and well read, this scholar assigned a book that they had authored to our[…]

Day 355: On the verge of 41

January 14, 2018 phillmemoir

I feel like lightening the mood after yesterday’s post, so I’m going to do a little bit of a memoir piece today. I’m going to write about the first birthday I can remember. I think[…]

Day 353: Maybe we’re doing it wrong

January 12, 2018 phillArmchair phillosophy

Today I had the opportunity to sit on a small panel to discuss interdisciplinary work with one of my colleague’s classes. I enjoy such opportunities, and I’m glad I was able to stop in. I[…]

Day 352: One more chunk of that Year to Come thing

January 11, 2018 phillmemoir

The last page of that booklet Julie and I filled out last year is a set of six sentences to complete to describe your year. I’m going to do that again, here, now so I[…]

Day 351: Magical Triplets (not the Elite)

January 10, 2018 phillmemoir

Today was not a great day. I’ve just been kind of off, things have been hitting me weird. But I decided to look again at that planning the year thing from last year. It has[…]