Recently, I bought the book Life is a Verb by Patti Digh. In it are words of imagination, wisdom and wonderful exercises. A quote she wrote really affected me, and it has been at the forefront of my mind lately – with every decision, every response, every action or reaction. She wrote, “If I recall…
After a week’s vacation, I have a singular focus: selling books. In Florida, as we perused a Books-A-Million, I saw my book on the shelf. I quickly scooped it up from the self-help section and plopped it on our “favorite paperbacks” shelf. A little guerilla marketing never hurt anyone and perhaps someone will pick it…
All day, I have done nothing. I got up early, made coffee and pancakes and lounged on the couch, watching Say Yes To The Dress (no, really, I did). I did manage to walk to the gym to do cardio; cleaned; made food; took a walk, all waiting for Alex to get back home from…
Dialogue of an inner self-critic… (a compilation) I’m so bloated. God, I look disgusting. How can I look like that when I work so hard! I stare in the mirror, clothes removed, seconds from entering the steaming shower. I turn to the side, let my stomach billow out to its normal shape – 6 months…
Once upon a time, I stood in a boxing ring. I wore leather gloves flecked with red. I threw jabs and overhand lefts and body shots into the soft bellies of men. I got brain surgery; I stopped boxing; I lost heaps of hair on the left side of my head. As a freshman in college,…
This morning, as I dove into a stack of buckwheat carob pancakes, drizzled lightly in agave nectar with a steaming cup of coffee, I thought about my girlfriends. I have always been someone who fosters close, intimate relationships and would take that any day over hundreds of acquaintances. I am lucky enough to have several…
Have you ever stopped to think about the wide scope of our emotions? How you can be absolutely certain of how you feel and that you will always feel this way, and then just as easily, whether the circumstances change, the partner changes, the place changes, or simply through time, you feel completely different about…
fulfill – bring to completion or reality; achieve or realize (something desired, promised or predicted) Sitting in Caffe Streets today, I marvel at the expensive coffee (it’s how much for two large coffees?) and sleek, minimal interior. Alex and I have decided to work in a different part of town today, in hopes of revving…
On a cool night in March, I listen to the sounds outside. I have turned off the television, and the house is quiet, except for the hum of speeding vehicles on the cool pavement five stories below. I have eaten my favorite bowl of soup, West African Peanut, topped heavily with chives. I have watched…
The apartment is quiet, except for the new Adele CD emanating from the iMac. Alex is out with his mother, doing business and running errands. Cardio has been completed, the first cool moments of this Monday spent outside walking to the gym. Breakfast has been made and consumed, oatmeal topped with blueberries, sunflower butter (a…
