By Date
12/09/2003: If we are the body: Thoughts on the thing we call the body
12/23/2003: I hate you... but I love you...: Musing on the love-hate relationship I had with skating
12/29/2003: Nobody said it was easy: Remarks on how hard it is to be a vegetarian and ostensibly recovered eating disorder patient
02/17/2004: There's gotta be more to life: Skating and the grand scheme of things
03/26/2004: It's all right to be a revolution: The virtues of abnormalcy
04/02/2004: You label me, I'll label you: A musing on the labels we put on each other
04/13/2004: A rant about "Low Carb" diets: Self-explanatory
04/19/2004: Into the woods: Random thoughts during walking meditation
04/21/2004: Rant about the diet industry: Also self-explanatory
05/25/2004: Feeling old by twenty-one: Age and agelessness
06/08/2004: Funny how we feel so much: Thinking about feeling
12/15/2004: It might be a quarter-life crisis: It's not just for middle age anymore
12/18/2004: You're a mean one, Mrs. Grinch: A rant about the holiday season
12/23/2004: Aberrations, isms, and arbitrary lines: About vegetarianism and veganism, and how we decide what we eat.
01/05/2005: What the hell am I doing here?: Remembering why I quit skating the first time around
03/07/2005: Rhyme and reason, or lack thereof: Does everything really happen for a reason?
03/14/2005: Rant about the food and supplements industries: Self-explanatory
03/31/2005: Losing My Religion: Thoughts on religion, dogma, and spirituality
04/19/2005: The myth of self: What is the self, anyway? And does it actually exist?
04/28/2005: To know, to understand: There's a difference between knowing and understanding
05/12/2005: Something fishy going on: Ambivalence about the existence of zoos and aquariums
05/16/2005: How do you leave the past behind...?: Do people ever really change?
05/18/2005: Connection in an isolating age: Pathologies of industrialized civilization
06/07/2005: How long 'til my soul gets it right?: Musings on reincarnation and what it is to be human
07/11/2005: We know we belong to the land: A rant about land "ownership"
07/26/2005: Vegetarianism and the "natural" order of things: Can you defend where most of your meat comes from?
08/05/2005: My place in this world, part 1: Confusion about the direction of my life
08/18/2005: It's a grand illusion: Questioning perception
09/02/2005: The accidental volunteer: On manning the phones for the Red Cross after Hurricane Katrina
09/15/2005: First time for everything: Realizing that it's been months since I've set foot on the ice... and I still don't miss it.
11/21/2005: Money: What it is, and what it does.
12/08/2005: Looking for baggage that goes with mine: Tongue-in-cheek letter to potential boyfriends
03/05/2006: Vegetarian reasons part 1: Health benefits
03/23/2006: Forget regret?: Jonathan Larson might've been onto something
04/10/2006: Potential: What is really within our power to do?
04/20/2006: Vegetarian reasons part 2: Environmental concerns
06/01/2006: Vegeterian reasons part 3: Nonhuman animals
06/14/2006: Vegeterian reasons part 4: A question of nature
07/05/2006: Vegeterian reasons part 5: Social, economic, and aesthetic concerns
07/23/2006: Vegetarian reasons part 6a: Religious reasons (general; Eastern, Earth-based and traditional paths)
07/23/2006: Vegetarian reasons part 6b: Religious reasons (Abrahamic religions)
09/21/2006: Violence and non-violence Musings on dogmatic pacifism
09/28/2006: The Meaning and Importance of Religion A paper for World Religions class
10/23/2006: There's more to politics than "red" and "blue" A pre-election day rant
11/30/2006: The Maori of New Zealand Ethnographic compilation project on the Maori (broken into sections)
12/10/2006: Health Savings Accounts are Not the Answer A refutation essay decrying HSAs
01/27/2007: Passenger Pigeons Thoughts on species gone extinct, and those who might follow
03/31/2007: Journal entry on Kant Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
04/24/2007: Jounal entry on Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
05/01/2007: Journal entry on Simone De Beauvoir The Second Sex and feminism
05/12/2007: From Kapa Haka to Hip Hop: Music of the Maori of New Zealand Final paper for a World Music class. Opens as a Word document.
Ongoing rants:
General thoughts and philosophizing
Food, nutrition, and diet in general
Vegetarianism and veganism
Mental health and psychology
Ecology and environmentalism
Musings on my personal life
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