So as part of my New Year I’ve decided that it’s time to stop whining about the recent increase on the scale, and the pants that don’t button quite the same way anymore and to eat better and move more. I’m not all the sudden crash dieting or ridiculously rationing or sweating on a treadmill [...]
I’ve been dreading trying to conquer this post. Probably, due in part, to the simple fact that I don’t have it all neatly figured out and compartmentalized yet…and will have to admit to myself that I probably never will. So, the Ex. Maybe I should begin with how we met. I was a 22 year [...]
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” -Edith Lovejoy Pierce
That is the kind of girl I am. The one that sounds overly formal, the one who would actually use mot juste in a sentence…and not just to sound pretentious. What do you expect from a kid who grew up with no TV, no friends within a 10 mile radius, and read everything she could [...]
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, [...]
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”-e.e. Cummings I’ve been in one of those overwhelming, [...]
Well, maybe it wasn’t quite a foot…but it’s still the first real snow of the year. It fell just as Christmas lights and trees were springing up everywhere, holiday plans were being solidified and present lists were being double checked. So, even though I was coming off of a long weekend of debauchery and sheer [...]
So, a while ago I stumbled across the blog The One-Minute Writer and was fascinated by the concept. So I went allll the way back to their first topic and it was “Describe your memories of a piece of furniture from your childhood home”. Instantly my mind flitted back to MY BED. That bed was [...]
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don’t necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk. – Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
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