For the past several days, I’ve had the Aerosmith song “Amazing” stuck in my head. Well, to clarify, I’ve had a single line of the song stuck, which has resulted in the rest of the song bouncing around inside my skull. Life’s a journey, not a destination – and I can’t tell just what tomorrow […]
Admissions of Failure (and why they’re sometimes good)
So. Maybe you remember that post I wrote a while back, about sticking to your schedule (link) and the admission of defeat if you miss a deadline? Well, here goes: I failed! (And I’m okay with that.) I’m hopping on a westbound train on Friday afternoon, and I have more work to be done than […]
On Writing and Darkness (or: an external look into an internal world)
We all have a face that we put on for the external world – a face that hides, to some degree or other, our innermost workings, our fears and our insecurities. For some people, you can’t see the real person for the facade, where others are mostly transparent, letting their inner self shine through. I […]
Bookworm! (or: recapturing a lost love)
Confession: I used to be a huge bookworm. I taught myself to read when I was young. (Before you give me too much credit, my parents read to me every night from the time I was a baby, and I know that I picked up a lot of my reading comprehension from that activity.) If […]
Labels (and why I’m cutting mine out)
Labels. They’re the reason clothing companies created “tagless tees” – because tags chafe and itch, and otherwise drive you batty. (My grandmother used to cut all the tags out of her clothes; as soon as it came in her house, out went the tag. Not so helpful when trying to identify an article of clothing […]
Continuing Education (or: always be learning)
Two points, one post: 1. As a former teacher, I lament the loss of school systems that actually teach children how to think; with the advent of No Child Left Behind and a strict adherence to the SOLs (Standards of Learning), we are slowly building generations of young people who have learned how to memorize […]