by AnnSheybani | Nov 27, 2025 | promotion, publishing, Writing
Most evenings after work, my father would be outside running the lawn mower, spraying the grass with a garden hose, or spreading Scott’s seed, dandelion killer, or lime by the 50-lb bagful. Come fall, he’d attack the leaves with a rake for hours on end and...
by AnnSheybani | Nov 24, 2025 | Writing
I thought I’d bring this post back because it’s even more relevant than ever, thanks to cultural fatigue.You know what I’m talking about, that sense that doing ANYTHING seems so…utterly pointless. Add in the holidays, and who feels like doing...
by AnnSheybani | Nov 17, 2025 | Reading, Writing
“This is the hardest thing you will ever do.” That’s what Gordo, the instructor of our Intro to Scuba Diving class, told us while he scrawled his name on the blackboard. Gordo was a big guy, nearly 300 pounds of flesh that couldn’t have been...
by AnnSheybani | Nov 10, 2025 | Life, Writing
My friend and I were seated together at a conference. I could practically feel the sparks coming off her, so consumed was she by the desire to be plucked from the crowd and brought onstage for an exercise. Leaning forward, she gripped the chair-back in front of her,...
by AnnSheybani | Nov 3, 2025 | Life, Writing
In 2010, Marina Abramović did something insane.For seventy-five days straight, she sat in the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Six days a week. Nearly eight hours a day. No breaks. No food. No water. She didn’t speak. Didn’t move. She...
by AnnSheybani | Oct 27, 2025 | Reading, Writing, writing lessons
As a chemistry major who really shouldn’t have been a chemistry major for a whole host of reasons, I nearly lost my mind with physical chemistry. One exercise that I found particularly punishing was proving “proofs” for quantum theorems. I mean, how...
