I’m sure I’m not alone in this, but when I was a girl, I had a brilliant notion: what if I could have all of the sicknesses of my lifetime at once, rather than having them parceled out here and there, when they were least expected and seldom welcome? Or, because I quickly figured out [...]
happiness
You think to yourself: “I can do this!” or “This will be good for me!” or even “It doesn’t matter.” And so you smile when someone asks how things are going, broadly, you smile, with most of your teeth, and you flick aside what’s left of your heart, and you stick out your hand and [...]
I waited for weeks for that odometer to roll over: the first 50,000 miles I’d put on a car ever. First EVER. Not the extra fifty I helped put on the family car or the twenty/ten/five that got me to fifty on all of those other cars, 50,000 miles, from zero to five-oh (save the few [...]
Maybe it’s a reaction to the stress of not knowing what’s next, even though I’ve had a full four months to suss the sucka out. Maybe it’s the Resistor whispering sweet uglies in my ear as I near some kind of (oh please oh please oh please) creative breakthrough. Whatever flavor of fear is to [...]
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Poetry Thursday: Magic
I used to wish I could blink my way to happiness like Samantha on Bewitched making things appear or disappear at will, myself included. Okay, I still do. Standing in line after ever-lovin’ line at LAX, I transport myself in my thoughts to my destination instantaneously without baggage or more than the moment it takes [...]
The Book of Awesome will not make you more so. It’s neither prescriptive nor is it wildly illuminating. After all, most of us can sense the difference between good and bad, easy and difficult, delightful and not-so-much, and when we’re thinking clearly, we know how to open ourselves up to the light and steer clear [...]
Full disclosure: Gretchen Rubin is a friend. But I was a reader and fan of her blog long before we even met, and there’s no way I’d have done an elaborate pre-launch pimpage post if I didn’t think this book was so terrific. Also, this review was based on my reading of an uncorrected proof; [...]
It’s been four days since I split from the ever-lovin’, everlasting sunshine of Southern California to the decidedly cloudier, grayer skies of Portland, and on this fourth day, which Nature chose to fill with uncharacteristic amounts of bright and cheery sunlight, I find my mood has shifted dramatically for the better. Uh-oh. I harbor these [...]
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Book review: Simple Abundance
There are some books you can sit down and write a smashing, relevant review about instantly upon finishing reading them. Pam’s book is one of those, as is Chris and Julien’s. Whether or not I learn something new from them (and I did with both books), these kinds of books cover topics I know well [...]
In my youth I thought I had to be dark to be interesting Which for a girl who was lighter than helium and whiter than 14 Presbyterians having high tea at the Ritz was problematic. Not exactly true but proves a point: how black or blue can a child of privilege with a naturally sunny [...]
