Mom,
The other day, I walked into Big Girl’s classroom to pick her up and there you were. You were seated in one of those tiny Kindergarten chairs, clutching your big black purse, and my girl was sitting there next…
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You take notes. Real ones. Imaginary ones. You pay attention. Notice things. Connect dots. Your aim, if unconscious, is to better understand yourself, the world. Your goal, if hazy, is to prepare yourself, to stockpile information, to grow.
But one…
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Since Monday’s Happier Hour with Gretchen Rubin, I’ve been thinking a lot about happiness, what it means, what it looks like, feels like. And I’ve realized something. Being busy, busy doing things I love – writing, mothering, spending time with…
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I learned something yesterday. Something I already knew, but seem to forget. I learned that it can be really rewarding to tell a truth. I am not talking about the truth, that elusive, Platonic thing we are all implored to…
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Today is my birthday. At 3:38 this morning, I turned 34. Not young. Not old.
Today is my birthday. And I will spend it doing the things I love: drinking coffee, writing words, wrangling girls, talking and laughing with people…
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Okay. So it’s officially official: I love doing these Friday Loves. I’m not sure why. It’s something about the show and tell, the sharing and caring, the hunting and gathering, the reveling in things silly and serious, goodies physical and…
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Where does beauty come from? When do we first become acquainted with this concept? When does it come to dominate our decisions and our visions, or does it? Do some of us escape concerns about being beautiful and having beautiful…
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Believe me. I know. It’s hard to begin things. It’s hard because we don’t know where to start.
But the truth is that beginning well, as Aristotle says, is often half the work. Often if we just decide to start,…
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Do you take things too seriously? Sometimes I do. Sometimes, I get all wrapped up in issues, in thoughts, in that ever-expanding taxonomy of what-if’s and I enter a pretty serious place. But then. Then I am brought back –…
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Today was supposed to be the day.
Today was supposed to be the day I met my lovely agent (Brettne Bloom of Kneerim & Williams) for breakfast in the neighborhood. The day I handed over a crisp stack of pages,…
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