I have clear memories of being in middle school gym class, wearing my gym shorts, hearing the other girls talking about shaving their legs, and saying something like this to the other girls: "Yeah.. I really need to shave." The thing is, I hadn't started to shave yet. My leg hair was BLONDE, and it … Continue reading My Body (Hair), My Rules
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Trust vs. Control
I committed to doing 100 Days of Yoga - and hopefully 100 more after that and 100 more after… - and during the week I just do a few minutes every day, usually just before bed. Last weekend, however, I started Yoga with Adriene’s newest 30 day challenge, TRUE, and just now I did Day … Continue reading Trust vs. Control
The hard work of starting over
This morning I woke up and as it is my day off, decided to not get out of bed for a while. So I watched Dylan Marron's YouTube channel for a while, scrolled through Facebook, etc. I also got up 4 times to answer the phone for work related calls and got increasingly grumpy every … Continue reading The hard work of starting over
Big Magic Changed My Life
This week I read Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear and it changed my life. I think I say that a lot, that something changed my life, but that's how we grow. We experience something and we let it change us. We read, for example, My Notorious Life by Kate Manning and we let it … Continue reading Big Magic Changed My Life
Here’s the thing about Elliot Reid, Dominican Spanish, and Proverbs
During my last semester of college I watched all nine seasons of Scrubs on Netflix (oh, that blessed Netflix). Prior to that wonderful experience I would've listed the word "frick" and all it's derivatives on my list of least favorite words (along with the word scarcely, which for some reason I have always mentally replaced with the … Continue reading Here’s the thing about Elliot Reid, Dominican Spanish, and Proverbs