Monthly Archives: January 2009

  • My Not-To-Do List for 2009

    Posted on January 7, 2009 by in real life

    RealSimple: I shamelessly absconded with your idea.  - thx, kat. Here are a few things I (hopefully) won’t be doing this year: 1. Eat Oreo cookies with white wine.  I almost got through all of 2008 without learning this little life lesson.  Ah, well. 2. Wait till I’m so stressed I’ve developed a facial tic [...]

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  • Planned Randomness.

    Posted on January 6, 2009 by in managing attention

    How full is your life right now? Is it really full?  Over capacity?  ”Holy crap, if I say yes to one more thing I may run away from home to become the most boring legal secretary ever” full?  (Sorry about that last one.  It’s an homage to Anne Tyler’s The Ladder of Years.)   I [...]

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  • So far, so good.

    Posted on January 5, 2009 by in real life

    Welcome to 2009!!   It would be impossible for me to adequately describe how happy I am to be here.  I’m glad you’re here, too.   You see, here’s the thing I realized over my Winter Break: you don’t actually have to keep up with the present.  In fact, being in the present can be [...]

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