I woke up this morning feeling blah and fuzzy and off my game. Most days I exercise in the morning and then write and work on projects while the kids are at school, but today I decided that after the bus stop I would be back in bed watching The Bling Ring. I needed a morning of being alone in Sophia Coppola's brain world (that's our resident term for imagination and vision). I needed a morning of sweatpants and cozy covers. Well, maybe need is a strong word but it felt like the right thing to … [Read more...] about daily mantras for keeping my sanity
authenticity
i want it now
I'm impatient. I pay attention to what I eat for two days, step on the scale and expect to see movement. I post to this blog and within hours go check how many people are reading it. I enter a contest for the first time, and I want to win. I want results. Immediate results. I want to stomp my foot like Veruca Salt and wail, I want it now. Give it to me now. I want to jump to the front of the line. I want to bound like the hare. I want to feel like I've arrived. You … [Read more...] about i want it now
breaking down authenticity
I was talking with someone recently, and they asked what I did for work. Do I work outside the home? (This is always a hot button for me. Even the phrasing of this question makes me bristle but that's a whole different post.) Well....not really, no, right now I have a blog. What's it about? It's mostly about personal development and trying to live an authentic life. And you know, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. So I write about that. I love that. I try to be really … [Read more...] about breaking down authenticity
meeting anna quindlen
Last week, one of my favorite people was in town. Well, one of my favorite people that I don't actually know - the very talented and amazing and inspiring Anna Quindlen. A former journalist, columnist and now novelist, Anna Quindlen was also the speaker at my college commencement. I'm convinced she wrote that commencement speech for me. She looked inside me, saw all of my struggles and spoke directly to me. Of course she didn't. But it felt like that. That is one her gifts as a writer. … [Read more...] about meeting anna quindlen
thanks
I was going to tack on a thank you to the beginning of a different post, but then the thank you was getting really long. Maybe it was getting so long because it was way overdue. So here goes. Thanks for stopping by. Starting this blog was something I wanted to do for a lot of different reasons, but I never thought much about how it would make me feel. In the beginning I thought that if I shared a little, gave a little bit of myself away, I would be overcoming some long held fears. What I … [Read more...] about thanks
birthday on the horizon
A few years ago, I took my birthday off Facebook. I wasn't trying to be demure about my age. I wanted to do a little social experiment and go back to a pre-Facebook world where the birthdays of special people were stored in a little corner of your mind. Even though you might miss it by a day or two, it was seeing the date on a calendar or while scheduling a meeting or writing it on a form or even a check (remember those?) that made you think about that person. Your brain was forced to make the … [Read more...] about birthday on the horizon
three things i can’t bring myself to do
There are some things I can't bring myself to do. I know they're supposed to be fun and light hearted. I know the point is to share something about yourself. Start a conversation. Make a connection. I get this. I have a blog, and I've opened up my life with the hope of making a connection through sharing. I've crossed the line of over-sharing more than the Average Joe. But there are things that I've categorized as not-for-me. Am I being closed minded? Are my introverted tendencies rearing … [Read more...] about three things i can’t bring myself to do
word of the year
Dictionaries and dialect societies have taken up the practice of naming a word of the year. Last year some of the winners included infovore and selfie. A true sign of the times. And while I am too old for selfies (all the Instagram filters and phone angling in the world can't camouflage my aging skin), I will call myself an infovore which according to the Urban Dictionary is a person with a voracious appetite for information. There's also a word of the year trend among the personal … [Read more...] about word of the year