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Category Archives: Life

Lesson Learned: The Titanic

America owes a lot to the Titanic disaster.
The tragedy has spawned award-winning Broadway plays, X-billion-dollar-grossing feature films, perfectly average novels, and macabre enjoyment rides (”We’re dying, Dad!” they scream in excitement. The father, sticking his polo-ed chest out proud, chuckles, “That’s great, sons.”).

If that isn’t enough, people simply won’t stop talking about it. Case in [...]

Childhood Remembered

I miss my childhood.
Childhood Remembered: Watercolors
I recently purchased a Crayola watercolor set and a watercolor pad on a whim. 
In elementary school, I loved art class, more than anything.
I remember painting the ocean skyline over and over again. 
I remember placing snowflake cut-outs on noses and wishing, hard, for snow, or more so, for a snow day.
I [...]

Rain On My Wedding Day

Jamba Juice was out of the ‘Daily Boost’ today.
Although I tend to think I have a great appreciation for irony, I wasn’t happy.

A Form of Communication

I am happy to announce that I am now the proud owner of the screen name, PooNannyDrescher.
Please, don’t ever feel you can IM me there. Thanks.
Fair Enough.

“The night has only just begun.”

That’s what they said.
And then I fell asleep.

A Shit-Load

A year ago, two women and a glass took the internet by storm. 
Not only did they inspire thousands of people to pick up a camera and film their own response videos, but, also, they answered a question that has plagued me since middle school:
How much, exactly, is a ’shit-load?’
The answer- one cup.

Tony Guido’s “Origin of the Jäger Bomb and the Loyalties of World War II”

Being an ambitious previous-valedictorian-soon-to-be-failure, I intern. Not the type that draws blood in the emergency room in preparation for their starting six-figures salary. The type that is paid nothing in hopes they might actually get a job that barely pays the rent.
As one of these eager interns, I find myself doing such tasks as pouring [...]