I was flipping through my copy of 642 Things to Write About, and one of the prompts was about a time capsule, and it started me thinking (always dangerous, I know). If you could only put one thing in a time capsule that would describe you (or your life) to someone who opens it in
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
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
Over the weekend we completed filming on a pilot presentation for Dating in LA and Other Urban Myths (more on that experience later). It’s a project we’ve been talking about for four years, based on a blog that began nearly seven years ago. And today I found out, quite by accident, that a script that
This blog has always been about leaps of one form or another– leaps of faith, leaps of insanity, leaps out of the way. At times, it may have felt like being thrown off a cliff, instead of a willing jump, but for the most part the leaps have been good decisions. Yesterday, I took another
I find myself with a couple of days on my own. When I realized this an odd little bout of motivation was sparked. Before I knew it, I had a list of (conservatively) 50 items that I would take care of while I had this time. They ranged from the mundane to the impossible (or
As I sit here on a balcony overlooking the ocean, on this the first day of my 44th year of existence, I find myself musing about all the things I once planned for someday when my real life started. This kind of musing can be hard on those who are truly delicate flowers, but if
Success is neurologically determined by one’s ability to stay focused on a task. (TNT’s Perception) Now, I don’t know if this is actually scientific theory, or if the writer of TNT’s Perception made up something that sounded like it could make a good theory (it does). Whatever the reality, the quote struck me. I
When I tell people that I’m a writer often they get this anticipatory look. I always assumed that they were waiting for me to tell them the name of something that they might recognize (which is unlikely). As it turns out, I think they are waiting for me to finish the sentence with the following:
There is nothing so consuming as an unrealistic desire. I’m not even sure it matters what it is: unattainable career goals, inappropriate men, getting into a size 2 again…. All of these things have the power to take the concentration off of realistic and necessary activities and put it firmly in dreamland. I have made