Contents

I started this website as a blog in 2013 shortly before I left academia. I posted with some regularity in 2013 and 2014, and then fell out of the habit in 2015. I revived the blog in 2017. Here’s a breakdown of what I’ve written about on here:

• Tuesdays with Toes – posts about my relationship with my cat, Toes
• Corona Poems – weekly poems written during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic
• Flash Christmas – short stories inspired by holiday songs
• Math humor and advice
  • A series of Taylor jokes (far and away the most popular post on this site)
  • Algebraic Independence Day party ends in tragedy
  • 4 tips for non-mathematicians attending math dinners
  • Geometry Lessons
• Self-improvement
  • Thoughts on Improvement from a Most Improved Award Winner
  • An Addendum
  • The Token Start
  • Costs and Benefits of Change
  • Committing to Change
  • Did I lose the year?
  • Life’s Pleasure or Distraction
  • Giving Up the Good
  • Every entrance is an exit from somewhere else
  • A Meditation Milestone
  • The War in my Mind is more like a Skirmish
  • Habits for Effectiveness
  • My new self-care mantra
  • Who am I improving for?
• The challenges of being an artist
  • Just Have Fun Out There
  • The Special Group
  • All the World’s a Stage…But Where’s Mine?
  • Riding the Waves of Popularity
  • Why’d I wait so long?
  • You’ve got this, Sarah
  • Just Say No for Creatives
  • Keep the Comedy, Ditch the Self Loathing
  • The scenes that never were
  • Loneliness is wanting things from other people
  • Falling Forward in Improv
  • High Pressure Performances
  • I’m a Crab.
  • The Joys of Inexperience
  • Photo series inspired by playing pretend
  • Creating light in the darkness
  • Recalibrating the flow of sand through my hourglass
  • Blargh update: why am I doing anything?
  • Becoming a writer (Part 1)
  • Becoming a writer (Part 2)
  • One year into the novel: my writing then and now
  • I’m afraid to just do it
  • A Flexible Agenda
  • The Beginning (of this blog)
• Thoughts on academia and leaving it
  • On leaving academia
  • Worth the investment: therapy
  • Reconnect with things you love and find yourself
  • Dealing with disappointment
  • My dissertation was my first baby
  • Checking In Four Years Later
  • If you can finish a dissertation
  • Ken Burns Life Goals
• Cemeteries
  • Cemetery Recommendations
  • Foggy Cannon Christmas
  • Grief Set in Stone
  • My Favorite Parks are Cemeteries
  • Mementos: First 5K Race Shirt
• Social Media
  • Venmo Fomo
  • Why are they bothering Jesus with this stuff?
  • Living Inside Our Simulation
• Travel Inspired
  • Rough Towels
  • What to Pack for Eternity
  • A Cough From Above
  • Technical Difficulties
  • Preparing for Normandy
  • Remembering Enough to Never Forget
  • 11000 Virgins and a Sock in My Shoe
  • Warning Signs
  • Conditional Bucket List Items
  • On the Occasion of our 8th Anniversary
• Gender, feminism, and beauty standards
  • On Striving to be an Object of Men’s Desire
  • The Space of a Woman
  • Pretty deep thoughts on pretty
  • The Front
  • Becoming Fagin
  • Lost Texts
• Get to Know Me excerpts from my old Xanga and journals growing up plus other recollections and observations
  • My Inner Sister
  • There Comes a Point
  • Sitcom Expectations
  • Vicarious Memories
  • Roadkill Radio
  • Tearjerkers
  • Memorable Performances
  • 30 After 30
  • Get to Know Me at 23* #YesAllWomen
  • Get to Know Me at 15* (Valentine’s Day)
  • Get to know me at 8
  • Who I trusted at 8