When I announced that my something new for the day would involve wine on Instagram, I had more than one skeptical response. It’s true– wine is not a new thing. Though I’m still a light-weight when it comes to drinking, I have done my share of tasting. I’d like to say that I have gained
I had very modest goals for my first time on the ocean in a sailboat: don’t die don’t throw up on anybody I’m happy to report that both goals were accomplished with my usual degree of skill. To be honest, I don’t believe I was even close to tempting fate on either of those issues,
While I’ve been wandering around the city finding “the new,” I’ve been keeping my eyes open for potential new writing spots. You’d think that any space that would allow me to sit down and start writing would work, but no. I like to make it difficult (half of you just said, “Don’t you always?”). For
A little over a year ago, I had someone look over the pitch for the web series. I wanted a male perspective, and he had many wonderful and useful comments about the approach to the series. However, one of his comments really stopped me in my tracks. He said, “No one will ever believe she
Note: This is what I was in the middle of writing when that pesky bomb threat thing happened. You can see that there was already something a little bizarre in the air. Some days beg for cider. But I didn’t want any of my standbys. Luckily, my LA pub of choice added a new one
My original post for something new today was a relatively humorous post about the new cider I had discovered during an unplanned happy hour celebration with friends. I may still post that later, but at the moment, I think you would be better served by learning how to make the most of a bomb threat.
There was quite a lot of new over the weekend, but most exciting for me was the upgrade (finally!) of my phone. None of my apps were really working anymore (mostly because, as my friend C put it, they were made in 1984), and it was looking like I might lose out on some writing
Sometimes in the pursuit of new, I discover the strange—not strange outside of myself necessarily, but inside. I decided that yesterday’s new was going to be a writing webinar. It was informative. It was useful. It was nerve-wracking. What? Yeah. I had all these crazy jitters before starting the webinar. I could chalk it up
I’ve started trying to stick to a new rule– don’t engage with other drivers on major thoroughfares after 2pm. Today I broke that rule in the search of something new. It took me three times longer to get where I was going, but I finally hit Carroll Avenue in my quest to see the Victorians.
I had a plan for the day. I was going to go up to the Getty and take a collections tour. I’ve done individual exhibits before, but never anything like this, so I thought it would fit in with the “trying new things” challenge. Plus, I like sitting on one of the lawns and looking