Liner Notes with Tony, Part III: syLAble
Here I’ve compiled a list of songs containing one of my favorite lyrical quirks: emphasizing the wrong syllable of a word, but making it work.
Traveling Alone: A How-To
But I’ve found solo travel to be a rewarding experience. Here’s what I learned.
The Weather Outside is Frightful
Thick, globby specks of white dotted the sky, like Impressionist brushstrokes viewed too close up.
Life and Death in the Forest
One hit to the torso killed you dead. Three hits to the same limb chopped it off. Head shots were off-limits by parental decree, but if they happened on accident you better recover quick before Calvin jabbed you in belly with a two-handed sword.
A Journey of Advent
For months, I have been waiting for news about my dream opportunity. I have held back from any long-term commitments for the sake of a possibility. I have been expectantly been waiting for news—any news.
May
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are,” Dumbledore says, “far more than our abilities.”
You Have Always Been With Me: Musings from the Heart of an Enneagram 3
Enneagram 3, The Achiever: Adaptable, Excelling, Driven, and Image-Conscious.
Matt Cambridge, nice to meet you.
Winter Blessing
May you warm your body under thick blankets, your hands by radiators, your feet in old slippers.
Coming Out Ruined Christmas Eve
I remind myself that no one is watching me, probably. Nobody is passing judgement on Christmas Eve.
Sorry, Goodreads: Rethinking Reading Challenges
I’ve made a list of twenty authors—twelve who wrote after 1900 and eight from the centuries before—whose work I’m going to limit myself to.
