Often, I’ll be in the middle of editing a video when I hesitate over a particular moment.
“I just looked really awkward right there,” I might say to myself. Or I cringe a little because I’m coming off as overly earnest or sanctimonious.
However, in order to share my work on the Internet, I’ve had to accept that the earnest, awkward person in those videos is the same one I look at in the mirror. The likeness is accurate.
Read MoreSome people live in the past. I’ve spent years living in the future in my mind.
Whatever I was doing was a means to an end. It was a train trip to some better destination.
During the one year I spent working in public school, I used every single one of my prep periods to research what I might do next, from teaching English in China to moving to Nashville or LA to be a professional musician.
Read MoreBack in the olden days, when you used up all of your lives in an arcade game, that was it. Literally, GAME OVER.
You had to drop another quarter in the slot to play again. And you would always start at the beginning. It might take you hours to get back to where you were in order to practice the higher levels of gameplay.
Early home gaming consoles had the same design. But as computer and video games evolved (and merged along the way), they allowed players to save their progress.
Read MoreMay and June are full of graduations and celebrations.
My cousin graduated from medical school and is headed to her dream residency. My sister-in-law marched, masked, across a stage in cap and gown to claim a high school diploma. And Alexandria Lin, alumna of The Little Middle School, graduated from the University of Georgia and will work in the aerospace industry developing software for satellites.
Read MoreIt’s the first day of a new year. Unblemished and unbroken like an overnight snowfall that no one’s had a chance to walk upon.
Inevitably, it will get messed up — the snow and the year. What then?
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