March 2012
4 posts
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without...”
– Aristotle.
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friday facts 3/9/12: things i ate this week...
OK, a couple things here to begin. This title is slightly misleading. It is all things I ate within a week, but it was more like LAST week, but I’ve just been thinking about it now.
I am a very fortunate young lady. I eat fairly amazing things all the time, whether they are high class or a little more fabulous (and usually greasy) trash. But they all make me happy. The restaurant...
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“When I was a boy I was told anybody could become President. Now I’m...”
– Clarence Darrow
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an open letter to my bootcamp workout...
Dear Pain-fest,
Die. Die slowly, the way you make my muscles feel.
Oh golly good gracious. Why is it that I decided to embark on this journey with you? What part of me decided it was a good idea to wake up with the sun and do a muscle-killing, tear-inducing, hunger-making workout before I go to my dual jobs and work for 14 hours? Oh, it must have been the skinny-girl,...
February 2012
5 posts
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“The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. ...”
– Emil Ludwig.
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my aging crisis via footwear...
There’s this pair of sandals I want. I saw them—on clearance, mind you—when I was at the shoe store buying new shoes for my restaurant gig. Those, the restaurant shoes, are a necessity. They no longer offer any support (and I’m not talking emotionally, though they don’t do that either), and have left me whining in pain on the floor after several busy nights lately....
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“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”
– Lily Tomlin.
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goals for february...
Wow. I need to get back on my game. It’s funny how a little thing like a car accident just throws everything out of wack (that’s half sarcasm).
I’m welcoming February in grand fashion: with these 7 goals. Why 7? I don’t know. It doesn’t matter. 7 is a great number I highly under use.
So, here:
1) I’m instating a bedtime. That’s it. It must happen....
January 2012
2 posts
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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense...”
– Oscar Wilde.
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“When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me,...”
– Lin-Chi.
December 2011
4 posts
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three wishes for the week: 12/4/11...
1) I wish you will go back to reading my Pondering the Pulitzer blog. I wish you would tell your friends to read it. It needs love.
2) I wish this week you and I find great motivation to get through this hectic time of the year.
3) I wish December is a beautiful month filled with natural wonder and human compassion.
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“You can do anything, but not everything.”
– David Allen.
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friday facts 12/2/11: things you may have missed...
1) I was in a car accident. And while I only sustained minor injuries, it totally has thrown me off my productive game for weeks now. Minor injuries need so much rest.
2) I didn’t even tweet for 5 days. Insanity. Please refer to prior fact for reasoning (though it was also holiday-stress induced, as well as the follow up fact).
3) I am at my wits-end with my Blackberry. It’s...
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November 2011
3 posts
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holiday transitioning...
Suddenly, it’s beginning to look a lot less like Thanksgiving.
Then again, it wasn’t looking too much like Thanksgiving before Thanksgiving.
I suppose this is a trend all over the place—stores and cities decorating for Christmas before Thanksgiving, radio playing those carols at the same time. However, I like in a city nicknamed “The Christmas City”. Sometimes I...
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“Normal is getting dressed in clothes you buy for work and driving through...”
– Ellen Goodman.
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an open letter to cyber monday...
Dear Crazy Internet Day:
I’m afeared.
Honestly, I was a little nervous even to open an Internet page to have to write this Blog post. I was sure deals on electronics and toys and shoes would come shooting out at me from the screen, whizzing by like spells from a wizard’s wand or something. I’m a little too overwhelmed at this moment to make any good, ya know, what are those...
October 2011
17 posts
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three wishes for the week: 10/30/11...
1) I wish the Halloween photos posted on social media of you (and me) are either good looking or hilarious.
2) I wish I will be presented with opportunities to do good in this world. I wish that I recognize these opportunities when they are in front of me. I wish you will find ways to do good also.
3) I wish you and your family find ways to stay warm that are affordable.
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“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day...”
– Douglas Coupland.
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friday facts 10/28/11: halloween costumes of the...
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be...”
– William Faulkner (via misswallflower)
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“An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too...”
– Charles F. Kettering.
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friday facts 10/21/11: things that occupy my...
1) I like thinking about where I was 24 hours ago from any given moment. I like wondering about where I will be in 24 hours from any given moment.
2) I’m a synesthetes. Your words trigger approximately a dozen reactions in my brain, one after another. It’s a domino. So sometimes my verbal comments go from point A to point L. I forget you didn’t see all the train stops in...
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reasons you should be reading my other blog...
Do you like books? (Oh, I”m hoping for a chorus of YES!)
Do you like me? (Just humor me.)
Do you like the idea of me talking about books? (Try to contain yourself, darlinks.)
If you answered “yes” to any combination of these questions, boy, do I have a new blog for you. (What?! Another blog?! Don’t you ever sleep, Laura? Well, no. Aren’t you remarkably...
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this is not the blog that was supposed to appear...
So, during my nearly two-week tumblr absence (and intermingling absences before that), this blog post was written…and it NEVER posted (that was part of the problem I was having with said blog, forcing me to take a time out). While it might not be the most brilliant of things I’ve ever written here (also not the LEAST brilliant), I think parts of it are humorous. Also, I don’t...
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“We learn something everyday, and lots of times it’s that what we learned...”
– Bill Vaughn.
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an open letter to the nba lockout...
To Whomever It Most Concerns:
Does it matter exactly to whom I address? Who’s the biggest part of the problem? Owners? Players? Fans? (I’m only throwing “fans” in there because I kinda think it’s ridiculous that we let this continue. I’m not saying it’s like, “All evil needs to thrive is for good men to do nothing,” but I’m not...
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3 wishes for the week: 10/16/11...
1) I wish the Occupy Movement continues, and continues peacefully—this “peaceful” part needs to happen from both sides. I’m not blaming anyone, I’m not making accusations, I’m not saying they haven’t been. Just something to keep in mind. More importantly, I wish everyone does more listening.
2) I wish and hope the piece I’m working on for a...
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“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost...”
– Christopher Hampton.
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friday facts, 10/14/11: things i can't do...
1) I can’t ice skate. I haven’t even been since I was 11. There are many reasons. Everyone thinks this is weird. Many people promise to teach me, no one ever does it.
2) I can’t help but watch every episode of Jersey Shore. The cast members frequently infuriate me. I must watch. I felt the same about that MTV show many years ago with Tommy Hilfiger’s daughter and...
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the key to this blog, or to me, or to whatever...
Wow. Am I back?
Things have been…complicated. I have forsaken you, tumbles. I’m sorry. But here: I’m here. Can the strain between us be mended? Can we be close as we ever were? I’m deeply sorry. I will try not to do it again. I mean…I can’t swear it, but I can try. I can try diligently.
OK. Can we move on yet? Can I stop feeling bad now? Yes? OK,...
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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the...”
– Andre Gide.
September 2011
15 posts
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friday facts 9/30/11: things you may or may not...
1) I am allergic to raspberry. No other berry, just raspberry. It’s not a life-of-death allergy, but it is massively annoying.
2) I am allergic to eucalyptus. I know: strangest allergy ever. And while this is not going to kill me, it is going to make it very hard for me to breathe. Please be careful when buying me cold medicine, cough drops, skin care products (I don’t think...
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“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just...”
– Will Rogers.
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one day i'll have all the books: discard sale...
I won’t lie to you, tumble-loves: I wasn’t expecting much from the 2nd discard sale. It’s in the next city. I’ve seen it advertised…but always a few days after it’s happened—they only have it once a year. The library a few blocks from my house (Book Sale #1) has a discard sale every 2 or 3 months. So, when I accidentally forgot the one in June, it was...
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friday facts 9/23: brief banter...
1) I don’t know if I would say I’m always a nice person; I try always to be a kind person. They’re different.
2) I feel lucky when I read good books—especially if they’re books I just stumbled upon.
3) I just bought a few fancy new dresses. I would like to be taken somewhere while wearing them…one at a time, naturally.
4) I am unsure about nearly all the...
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i did something completely surprising and bought...
If there is somewhere in this world a pamphlet for, “Signs You Have a Literary Addiction,” featuring a checklist interior, I’m fairly certain I would check every box. Holy Moses. Here’s a warning: today’s rambling list of books is about half as long as Saturday’s (planned) follow up. (Are you currently scrolling and muttering, “Yikes!” Yeah, I...
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“In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”
– Tennessee Williams (via misswallflower)
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an open letter to my 1st edition faulkner...
Dear Original Printing of Mr. William Cuthbert Faulkner’s Pulitzer Prize Winning 1957 Novel The Town That I Found at the Public Library Discard Sale:
I love you. Profoundly. I love you profoundly.
I apologize for that initial uncouth outburst, and I will apologize in advance if breath and words fail me. I may not be able to accurately transmit my feelings. Really—how can pen on...
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three wishes for the week: 9/18/11...
1) I wish the pollen count to be down drastically this week. Unlabored breathing would be nice. I don’t think that’s asking too much.
2) I wish the European financial leaders figure some stuff out in their meetings. Then, I hope they hop on a Trans-Atlantic flight and help a country out.
3) I wish somebody will find time and patience to explain to me exactly what is going on in...
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“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does...”
– Zig Ziglar.
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friday facts 9/16/11: signs i'm getting old...
This morning I had a particular shirt in mind that I wanted to wear (navy blue silk button down with white dots), and realized it is at the dry cleaners. I thought, “Pshaw, this is the kind of thing that happens to adults, not me…wait…” Then I started thinking…uh oh… more than just my constant wearing of cardigans are making me an old lady. Symptoms include:
...
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yes i'll submit (to literary magazines)...
It’s holiday season already. What; you don’t believe me? Pish tosh, submission season is upon us. And one day, this is my wish for it:
Rather than worry, and scurry, and lament over my submissions of poetry and short fiction—I will simply place my work lovingly with beautiful magazines asking after it.
Sigh.
So say a million other wannabe writers, yeah I know.
I can still...
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three wishes for the week 9/4/11...
Let’s be honest: this is sort of a hollow, melancholy time for most of us coming up. We here on the East Coast were just rocked beyond an 80s song by a hurricane. Next week, there’s a 10th anniversary that is anything but celebratory. There’s rioting, there’s scandal, there’s political stupidity, there’s way too much not being nice to each other. So...
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“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insits on treating her as...”
– Oscar Wilde.
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friday facts 9/2/11: admissions...
1) Try as I may, I cannot help but like Ryan Seacrest.
2) Most mornings I wish wish wish until I feel like a dizzy pre-school girl that I am the only person riding the elevator up my office building at the given time.
3) When I was a young girl, my father had a rule that I need to do at least three productive things every day and make him a list about it. Then we discussed it. Don’t...
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rabbit, rabbit, yeah, yeah...
That’s what you’re supposed to say at the beginning of each month for good luck: “rabbit rabbit.” This is especially true in September, I’m told, which is supposed to be an extra lucky month as it it. I’ve said it three times today. If writing it counts, by the end of this post you are probably going to want my help picking lottery numbers…maybe I...
