Bullet journal planning. 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 you know
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
What I’ve been reading, generally stuff I’ve read this year, which was interesting enough to put down for future reference. And which is immediately available online: Blogs Mr Money Mustache (it’s there, but can’t be linked directly) — Who can help but be impressed when someone tells you you can retire in nine years flat, just
Brianna Weist’s 101 Essays that Will Change the Way You Think will help you re-frame your worldview and your relationships. Changing the way you think is tough. But reading these essays may make it easier. A couple weeks past, this book showed up at my doorstep. No doubt a helpful friend wanted to give me
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
I don’t often read books about Being a Writer. Because you know I’m above all that, ha ha ha. At least I used to think I was. But Bird by Bird is famous among writers, a book that everyone at writer’s group has heard of. Of course I didn’t rush out to read it. Because
Book review: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. I loved this book, which is strange when you realize that the subject itself is dark: it concerns the sudden death of Didion’s husband, John Dunne, after nearly 40 years of marriage. Despite the tragic subject matter, reading it became, for me, not a guilty
Although writing contests have long charged entry fees, and this is considered justified because it’s a contest and there are significant prizes to be won, submitting your work to various journals used to be uniformly free. Now in the last ten years, more and more literary magazines are charging writers to submit to their regular
The Sound of Gravel Book Review: It’s dark outside and in the beginning of The Sound of Gravel. The polygamous cult in which Wariner is raised, 200 miles south of Juarez, Mexico, is a land of rural beauty and grinding poverty. Living off the land is not exactly working for the 30-odd families of
Bohemian Rhapsody review: On the picture, not the song. I almost didn’t go to see the Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody. The DJ said on the radio at the time. “As for a Bohemian Rhapsody review … well, the reviews are mixed.” After watching it, and being thoroughly moved, especially by the second half of the
