Year: 2010

  • Living with 16 Roomates in Six Years

    In the past six years, I have lived with at least 16 different roommates for at least a month or longer. I also lived alone in a tiny dorm room as a college residential assistant (RA) for a single semester back in 2006. With the exception of two, I still have all of their phone…

  • Treasured Posts to Come

    My blog posts have primarily been documenting some of the fun activities I’ve been doing or new habits I’ve been trying to do such as trapeze flying and waking early respectively. However, the purpose of this blog is more than just that. I want to begin writing about, advocating, and defending some of my practices,…

  • Volunteering for Service at Vipassana Meditation

    My 10 day Vipassana Meditation Course was a life changing experience that fundamentally shaped my worldview and daily experience like nothing else in such a short amount of time. As I said in my previous post, this past weekend, I served as a volunteer at a 10 day course in Maryland. I had never worked…

  • 7 Day Experiment – 30 Minute Meditation Daily

    One of my life long goals is to establish a daily meditation practice. I strongly believe that meditation practice is a vital part of one’s mental health and have experienced its benefits firsthand. However, I have always had difficulty meditating daily. So, like my early waking experiment, I’m going to try a public meditation experiment.…

  • Moved Back Home August 2010

    Early August, I moved back to Delaware, my home state. The transition from the DC metro area back to Delaware has been a little harsh. It feels like it’s a step backwards. I am a citizen of the world, a cosmopolitian. While I never planned on staying in DC forever, I enjoyed the city very…