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 […]
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 spent a weekend in Dallas with two of my favorite people. Sitting in a bar above a ridiculously wonderful restaurant where the waiters carry out their jobs in costume and character, we chatted about favorite books. Somewhere in this conversation I remembered a thing I had forgotten about myself. I had forgotten a belief […]
It seems funny to me, somehow, that my last post on this little blog is called “arguing with calendars.” I grappled with my father’s 60th birthday, and yet made no mention of the fact that I turned 25. Or that I attended my 10th anniversary Coachella. I have nothing new to say besides noting that […]
One of my big blogger conflicts in the last couple weeks has been juggling two ideas that seem somewhat at odds with each other. First, I realized how bullshit it is to keep trying to pretend that things are sunshine and rainbows when they aren’t. Life gets hard and messy and I think that we […]
The shame of taking an excessively long time to finish my thesis and having to quit my job because I can manage neither my job nor my finances inevitably means that I have a lot of unpleasant shit crowding my headspace right now. It’s ugly up here. But there are so many hugely important things […]
In my last post I mentioned this post, which I wrote first. Now that I feel like I’ve prefaced it with some vague disclaimers, I feel a lot more comfortable posting it. It is all sorts of redundant after the last post, but this is useful for me in the weird sort of personal archiving […]
A good friend recently left her job and asked for encouragement. The details weren’t clear (and if they were, I wouldn’t be sharing them here) because all she really needed was a hug, and was willing to settle for internet hugs. (I give awesome internet hugs, FYI. Awkward real hugs, but awesome internet hugs.) The […]
Years ago, I was driving to Santa Monica with my best friend. We pulled up to the light at the end of Santa Monica Blvd., where it hits Ocean. It was late at night and I don’t remember how or why we got roped into talking to them, but two middle aged men in the […]
I believe that when I wake up in the morning I should be allowed to think one of two things in order to will myself out of bed: (1) I know it’s early, but you’re getting paid today. Remember how broke you are? Oh and those kids are pretty awesome. Get up. Get your coffee. […]