“What do you think about when you’re listening?” I asked my Mom during intermission. We were at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Muti, Uchida & Mozart. […]
Bonus Writing Update: Trash Draft is Complete!
A quick update … I have technically finished my shitty first draft/trash draft! It was cutting it close but waiting for mom’s flight to get […]
The Magical Mumbo Jumbo
Do you remember when the book The Secret came out? I was in high school when I remember the craze. Every time I checked the book out of the library for a patron I really just wanted to know what the secret was. One of my friends read it and loved it and tried to explain. But I didn’t get it. It sounded like magical mumbo jumbo and this from the girl who would do nearly anything to believe in magic.
The Spiral
My coworker described it like this to me a while ago: it’s a spiral, revolving around a fixed point but we’re at a different vantage each time we come around. I can read the same sentence and it takes on new layers of meaning with another six months of life and experience.
Writing Update: Can’t Talk, Writing
My trash draft deadline (agreed upon with my friend Lin, who’s also finishing a first draft of a novel) is this Friday, May 10th. An arbitrary deadline, but one I’m trying to take seriously.
Solitude
Cal Newport argues in his book Digital Minimalism that our modern technology and social media addictions have led to “Solitude Deprivation: a state in which you spend close to zero time alone with your own thoughts and free from input from other minds.”
Enchanted Rock
There is a ghost story about Enchanted Rock in the Texas Hill Country. A Native American brought his daughter to the summit and sacrificed her […]
Closet Purge
This coming week we’re doing a “stuff swap” at work. Hosted by our sustainability committee, this is an opportunity to bring in gently used clothes, […]
Contradictions
Here are the contradictions
Flitting from eye to eye in the bathroom mirror
Stare them down until they flutter
Until they inch back under my skin
Stare them down until another day
The contradictions flare again
Nice Acrostics
Last weekend I received an unexpected card from two of my best friends. They sent it in solidarity for April 21 and the love and gratitude I felt had me crying on the edge of my bed.