I woke up from a nap on my chaise lounge during an uneventful day off which included reading parts of books by such luminaries as Joan Didion, Steven Kotler, Allissa Wilkinson. I opened my eyes and looked out the plate glass window into the garden. Then I realized, with a strange reflective focus, that my […]
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“Believe me, you never know the best about men till you know the worst about them.” — Horne Fisher, the sleuth of The Man Who Knew Too Much These are mystery stories, eight of them, deeply immersed in the world of Edwardian England. The stories are atmospheric. They present between the lines a picture
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My copy of How To Stop Worrying and Start Living is quite old now. The printing date is 1984. I can’t remember who gave it to me or if I bought it myself. But when you look at the outlined pages of my copy one thing is clear. As a young woman, I went through
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Being Over 60 Being over 60 isn’t easy, even when you’re Boy George. Maybe I should say, especially when you are. But having finished his memoir Karma, I find that Boy George builds up your optimism for living life fully, for being true to your impulses, even the bad ones, and to sticking around to
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There are many kinds of self reflection meanings and many self-reflection web pages on the web. There’s ones on work, life, relationships … … there’s a lot of ways you can reflect. This post will show that self-reflections don’t always go the way you hope. Below: Annotated Bibliography On the Meaning of Self Reflection The
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A Reflection on the Famous “Banned Book” The book, are you there God, it’s me, Margaret, might be said to be an icon to my generation. Published in 1970, the book details the struggles of one 11 year old girl, Margaret Simon, who faces sixth grade and puberty as she moves from New York City
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Bullet journal planning, 2024 edition. I’ve decided that its time to start. To tell the truth, my bullet journal (or bujo, as they’re affectionately known) is pretty simple and a little bit hetrodox. I think of the way I do bujo as “bujo for sensible person who’s not incredibly self obsessed and controlling.” Because if
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Go past the shocking opening of the Barbie Movie, which has a laughing Barbie towering like a Greek goddess over a bunch of drab five year old girls smashing their baby dolls. (The scene is a reprise of 2001, a Space Odyssey, which might be a bit confusing.) Travel past to zoom in on Barbies
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Changing the way you think is tough. Brianna Weist’s 101 Essays that Will Change the Way You Think will help you re-frame your worldview and your relationships. A couple weeks past, this book showed up at my doorstep. No doubt a helpful friend wanted to give me a chance to change the way I think.
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Adjective: Picaresque: 1. relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero. Noun: Picaresque novel: A novel relating the story of such a character. The picaresque is not a new thing. Famous novels in this vein include Tom Jones, Huckleberry Finn, and, the granddaddy of
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