Week two and I’m already floundering a bit on my new blogging schedule. Time to re-group, relax that starting goal a bit. Going from two posts in the whole of December to three days a week in January was a bit ambitious. A lot ambitious. In thinking about this, it occurs to me that I […]
“They can’t all be winners,” or, “one of my 2014 goals is honesty and that means I’m going to post even the pointless drafts I should keep to myself.” Those of you lucky enough to be in non-miserable temperatures or those of you with ice in your veins may well have grown tired of hearing […]
As I suspect I’ve mentioned a time or twenty, I have a complicated relationship with my current residence. It’s only fairly recently that I’ve even been willing to refer to it as my home town. Calling it my “home town” has a weird feeling to it. It sounds like a fictional story I’m telling. Part […]
I spent the month of December doing a lot of big, exciting 2014 planning with The Stratejoy Holiday Council and it was an excellent life choice. I am now in a much better place heading into 2014; I was able to lay a lot of bad, ugly things from 2013 to bed. I got a […]
This post is sponsored by Make Your Money Matter, in association with PSCU, though all views expressed are my own. – The new year is just around the corner and one of my major personal goals is to be more purposeful in all the choices that I’m making. I make so many decisions in a […]
Two years ago I spent Thanksgiving harassing my Twitter friends with “#ridiculouslygrateful” tweets and wrote a long post which, in addition to detailing the insane events of the week of my brother’s arrest, I talked about how the week’s lesson was on perspective. A turbulent, stressful week supposedly gave me perspective about the things that […]
There’s this article I read a while back that I’ve shared in a number of places because the”Ring Theory” is incredibly useful for navigating any number of traumatic events. I recommend reading the actual article, but here’s my quick, inadequate summary: There’s always someone, or some group of people at the center of this traumatic […]
I have always been infinitely better at ideas than follow-through. I would devolve into a hot mess of remorse if I lost sleep over all the thought-seeds I have scattered across the earth without harvesting them. Plant that shit for somebody else. Nobody wants it? Oh well. This is part of why I actively force […]
This post is sponsored by Make Your Money Matter, in association with PSCU, though all views expressed are my own. – The great divide between my adolescent self and my vague-approximation-of-adulthood self really boils down to money. (Which is part of why there was this phase between the two where I was maturationally ambiguous. Don’t […]