Oct 17
Eat from the rainbow. Yes, find something red, orange, yellow, green, blue AND purple to get into your meals this week. And skittles don’t count.
Stand tall. It’s a great way to work out your core every minute of every day. No gym required.
Do a walking meeting. Conference rooms are so 2000. If you really want to step it up, try a biking or running meeting. Read more
MUST exercise. SHOULD avoid eating too much sugar. MUST sleep. SHOULD be more on top of the ins and outs of the debt crisis. MUST deeply know and understand my children. SHOULD get to know the neighbors better. MUST do a good job at what’s on my plate today. SHOULD volunteer more. MUST do work I believe in. SHOULD have a career path. MUST feel sunshine during the day. SHOULD finish one more work task. Read more
A few years ago, when our kids were just shy of one and three, my husband looked at me with exhausted eyes and said “if we get through these years without losing our jobs, getting divorced, or our kids resenting us, I’ll consider this time a success.” Hyperbole, yes. But that day, it felt like the absolute truth. He had spent the previous half hour scraping carrot puree off the kitchen floor and walls while I had physically barricaded our son’s door so he would stay in his room and go to sleep. Read more
Freshly back from a four-month backpacking trip through Southeast Asia, a friend stopped over last night for a catch-up. He shared stories of treacherous flights and exotic food and sticky nights and incredible beauty and fresh faces and big dreams and sleepless nights and long sleeps — the kind of stories that evoke pangs of nostalgia for any intrepid traveler. He had the spring in his step, the shine in his eyes, and the clarity of purpose that often accompany long periods away from the daily grind. Read more
The essay on the back page of yesterday’s New York Times Magazine was called “Why I Silence Your Call, Even When I’m Free.” The author tells a moving story about a moment in which she realized that she’s “coasting along on what seems like a new norm: Nobody picks up. Why should I?” Read more
A few nights ago our three-year-old was throwing a massive tantrum before bed. It started with a vehement toothbrushing boycott, transitioned into a refusal to go anywhere near her bedroom (I gave up on the toothbrushing with barely a struggle), and culminated into a flat out, lying-on-the-floor, foot-kicking, red-in-the-face episode of screaming “I’m hungry! I need fooooood. I’m SO HUNGRY. I’M SO SO SO HUNNNNNGRY!”
I didn’t reach for the fridge…I started crying. Nearly sobbing, actually. Read more
According to Merriam-Webster, a writer is “someone who has written something.” Bing Dictionary offers up this definition: “somebody who can write: somebody who can write, who writes well, or who enjoys writing.” Hmmm…maybe I can call myself a writer after all, despite the doubts that surrounded me today. Read more
The living room furniture doesn’t match. There isn’t any art hanging over the fireplace.
Home feels like home.
The vegetables in the garden died because we neglected to water them too many times. There is moldy pizza sauce in the back of the fridge.
Our bellies are full and so are our hearts. Read more
The south edge of the office was walled in glass, offering sweeping views of the downtown skyline. And on September 11, it opened a direct line of sight to the terror the nation was watching on TV. Suspended in disbelief, I remember being jolted by someone telling us all to call our families and let them know we were OK. “The phone lines are going to get busy…call right now,” she said. I returned from calling my family a few minutes before the second plane pierced through the second tower. Read more
“If you ask yourself ‘What’s the best thing that happened today?’ it actually forces a certain kind of cheerful retrospection that pulls up from the recent past things to write about that you wouldn’t otherwise think about. If you ask yourself ‘what happened today?’ it’s very likely that you’re going to remember the worst thing, because you’ve had to deal with it. But if you ask what the best thing is, it’s going to some particular slant of light, or some wonderful expression somebody had, or some particularly delicious salad.” – Nicholson Baker Read more
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