Carrot and Stick
I don’t know about you but I seem to have an almost magical ability to catalog every moment in my life where I fell short. All those times I was […]
Category Archives: Random Stuff
Self-Care
I took a 30 minute walk outside today. A lunch time walk may not sound like big deal but I have an unhealthy habit of forgetting to get up from […]
Amanda Bear with Too Much Content
When our daughter was younger she was really into The Bearenstain Bears books and cartoons. The books, if you have managed to avoid all 300 of them, dealt with single […]
Woo Girls and Poker Face
I have a terrible weakness for good news. Other peoples success, accomplishments, and surprises are an instant empathy shot of endorphins and I’m genuinely happy and excited for them. Unfortunately […]
Gee Haw Whammy Diddle
My sister and niece were over the house to celebrate my daughters 16th birthday yesterday and, as usual, a bizarre bit of our childhood folklore floated to the surface of […]
6 Things I’m Bad At
As I get ever closer to my 50th birthday its seems every where I look there is a list of something I should be paying attention to like “15 Things […]
Hard lessons
I was at a concert last night where the opening act was just dreadful. The young woman, on stage by herself with an electric guitar, was so nervous that it […]
Get On Up
This weekend I had to tell my husband that I don’t like James Brown. We decided to go to a movie the other night and he proposed the bio-pic “Get […]
Cheap shots
While this title might suggest a lengthy post about the evils of drinking well liquor, it is instead an acknowledgment how easily riffs on the venerable Meyers-Briggs Type Indicators amuse […]
Soft Serve
The street where I grew up boasted a soft serve ice cream stand on the corner called Gigi’s. At Gigi’s you could get vanilla, chocolate or, my favorite, a twist […]
Micro, micro dopamine flow. Bite my ass.
I am being forced to write this blog post by a friend who has suffered through an 8 week series of self-help workshops with me. I hope she is grateful. […]
Civilization Crumbles
The New York Times Social Q’s column sometime in the last couple of months included the line – and I paraphrase – “every time we fail to acknowledge someone we […]
Zen & The Art of Personal Maintenance
I am very bad at relaxing. That sentence is a good indicator of my poor showing at R&R. I always assume there must be some way to excel at activities and I […]
No, I Don’t Have a PhD
It happened again yesterday. An acquaintance introduced me to her other friend, and when we got through names, titles and work places, I remarked that we did similar kinds of […]
Moving
After ten years in the same location at work I’m being relocated. It’s a good thing for my office. A central location, easy access to parking, closer to all the […]
