Sam Strauss
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Writer & naturalist. Living the little house on the prairie life in Grand Teton National Park.
I’m lucky enough to have a job that pays the bills, so all tips will be donated (currently to LGBTQIA+ organizations).
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How to Trick Your ADHD Brain into Cleaning (with Science!)
My sophomore year in college, my dorm room was invaded by an army of fruit flies. It was my own fault—I had misplaced several avocados a week earlier and they had started to rot. Unfortunately, finding and disposing of the decomposing avocados was not an easy task. The topography of my cluttered room had begun to resemble a J.R.R. Tolkien map: Were the rotting avocados hiding beneath Dirty Laundry Mountain or Damp Towels Butte? Perhaps they had gotten stuck behind the Twin Towers of Loose Papers and Books I'll Eventually Get Around to Reading. Had they sunk into the Swamp of Textbooks of Semesters Past? Maybe they had rolled into the Cave of Abandoned Hobbies—aka under my bed—where a broken skateboard, half-finished sewing projects, a wood burning kit, two manuals on sailor's knots, and a sundry assortment of my other short-term interests had all gone to quietly die.
By Sam Strauss5 years ago in Psyche
