How could I make this flow better?
Here’s a paragraph from one of my personal essays… Listsing things sort of fits with the style, but I’m wondering if a particular punctuation would make it smoother…
While my skills gain a certain deliciousness from their impracticality, stumbling upon a “real world” use for a long-archived piece of knowledge is a surefire day- brightener: That time that I had to tie David a Half-Windsor knot before the show because he couldn’t find his costume’s tie; When my mother wanted calligraphy done on some invitations; The night I turned to aromatherapy (and perhaps the placebo effect) rather than Red Bull in an effort to stay awake and finish a paper; A montage involving a big green rectangle that turned out to be the Libyan flag; My sister’s surprise at receiving a crocheted version of a favorite cartoon character; That conversation during which determining whether a friend was a Taurus or a Gemini inexplicably became a task of upmost urgency. Any opportunity to whip out one’s Swiss army knife of trivial know-how is a window to that wonderful brand of empowerment that comes with exercising those “special” skills that could only be self-taught.