What Made Me Smile This Week (April 1 – April 7): Further Steps toward Mastery

Learning something new isn’t always easy. I suspect that’s why many people don’t like it, because in the long run you’ll have to deal with…

What Made Me Smile This Week (March 25 – 31): Going With the Flow

There is rumored to be a mythic state that meditating Buddhist monks can achieve, known as Satori, or flow. The outside world falls away, and…

What Made Me Smile This Week (March 18 – 24): Surfing the YouTube Train

Not all weeks can be as fun or exciting as last week, so unsurprisingly, things slowed down a bit. I will say however that I’ve…

What Made Me Smile This Week (March 11 – 17): Can You Hear Me Now?

At the rate that I am appearing in the Library of Congress, I’m going to be a celebrity! This week was uncharacteristically busy by normal…

What Made Me Smile This Week (March 4 – March 10): All Roads Lead to Washington, and a Temporal Shift

I’m making an executive decision with these posts. From now on, I’m planning to release them every following Monday. That’s not as hard as it…

Weekly Smiles: Wonderful Food! February 25 — March 3

This week seems to feature food very prominently. I assure you, dear reader, that this type of eating is highly anomalous for me. A series…

What Made Me Smile This Week, Premiere Edition

What follows will hopefully be a weekly thing for me from now on. You could look at this as a diary, but with a focus…