Life has been a little tumultuous lately, largely of my own devising. For example, earlier this year I quit, or at least, quit long enough to take a big-girl step back. I started saying “no”, a lot. And started saying “yes” to things that didn’t always make sense. On the surface. To “normal” people. I’m [...]
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I’ve been thinking a lot about aging lately. Part of it is closing in on the halfway mark to my birthday. (It’s September the 13th, in case you want to mark your calendar now). But a lot of it is all these metaphoric Post-It Notes that have been popping up on the metaphoric mirrors of [...]
I had an interesting chat today with my colorist (and good friend), Marc. Really, I have interesting conversations with most folks these days, since I discovered that the art of conversating (as the kids say) lies in the asking of questions and the hearing of answers rather than the spouting off of commentary. (Fancy that!) [...]
I was tired most of today, am still, in fact. Am (stupidly, short-sightedly) drinking coffee in a (stupid, short-sighted) attempt to work through it, as I’d feel like too much of a schmo bailing on any of the commitments I have in the next 24 hours. Why is this feeling so familiar, I wondered briefly [...]
There is something about this time of year that, even if she really, really likes winter holidays and cooler weather, can bring an up dude down. And that’s where I am, down. Or down-ish. Not so far down as I was pre-Arnie, certainly, but hey…getting up from down is a process. (So is learning that [...]
This is Day 10 of a 21-day effort to see the good in what might, at first, look like an irredeemable drag. Its name comes from a classic bit of dialogue uttered by actor Kevin Bacon in a classic film of my generation, Animal House. My late father was in the habit of mocking my [...]
I was going to sit down and talk about how hard the past week was…how draining. And it was, in its way. For whatever reason, there was an abundance of drama over the past eight days, the missed deadlines, botched communication and general farkakte-ness that seems to accompany Mercury going retrograde. (I wonder, could things [...]
For you busy types, here’s the topline: the communicatrix is well rested, the happy couple is well (and legally) married and (surprise, surprise) I did not get half as much done as I thought I would on my merry jaunt up the coast. For the rest of you, settle in. Because that last bit was [...]
This covers day 8 of 30 for the Hypnotherapy Project, which I’m collaborating on with Los Angeles-based hypnotist hypnotherapist Greg Beckett. You can read more about this experiment, what motivated it and what we hope to accomplish here. While Greg and I spend time each session on the actual hypnosis, most days we speak at [...]
While I’m no expert in the ways of things blogular, I’ve been doing it long enough, and obsessively enough, let’s face it, to have learned a few things along the way. The same goes for acting (which I was relieved to let go of almost a year ago), writing, design, presenting, cooking and, just because [...]
