Nancy, a.k.a. Journey Woman, tagged me with this meme about listing my 10-15 personal and/or professional goals for the summer.
If she had asked me a month ago, my list would have been very, very different. I would have been all about my planning and my benchmarks and who knows what all.
But I’ve seen the [...]
I’m out. (Slaps money on the counter.)
That’s right, didn’t last a day. And the challenge was for only two days.
But like I said in reference to something else last week, I’m off duty this summer. The policewoman inside my head is on vacation.
And I cannot believe the stress I was starting to [...]
Um . . . .
I read a book a few days ago about how we all have both The Tyrant and The Rebel inside us, and one is more dominant than the other, but it always triggers the other one.
Tyrant: Fabulous. A contest. A competition. Mother Reader says we’re all reading [...]
As Kelly and I were discussing here last Friday, there’s a bit of the hermit about both of us (and probably about some of you–fess it up). So my nice thing this week was putting on a skirt and a nice enough top last night and going out to novelist Laura Fitzgerald’s house listen [...]
You all know I love John Mayer. He’s one of only two musicians/composers on my List of 30.
So you can imagine how excited I was to find that John Mayer has a blog. And here’s the kind of real things he’ll tell you (from his “Ruminations on a Treadmill” post):
“This songwriting stuff is [...]
You know how when you don’t buy something expensive, you get to credit that extra money to yourself? So you skip the overpriced tchotchke (yes, that is how you spell it) and have an extra $50 or whatever to spend on something else.
Yesterday I had planned on flying to New York. And since [...]
I could feel guilty, but I won’t. I’ve decided to give up guilt this summer. Taking a vacation from the policewoman in my brain.
So I’ll just report that I’m in the middle of reading three different things right now, and I could have rushed through any one of them just to have something [...]
A lot of times those Friday posts turn into food fests–food we’ve indulged in, food we see on other people’s lists and wish we could have, food we once loved and not-so-secretly miss.
And I was in the midst of all that foodiness the other night when I suddenly realized what it is I really want: [...]
Our intentions were pure.
Two days ago, all was peace and bliss within the bird community in our back yard. I would sit out there every now and then and watch the mockingbird parents flit in and out of the thick jasmine climbing up our porch, and I could hear the baby birds squealing constantly [...]
I talked too much yesterday. Big long post, big long comments (from me as well).
So to balance that out, I’ll keep it short today. What nice thing did I do for myself this week? One word: Yoga, yoga, yoga. Every other day. Bliss. After all the time I [...]