Category: PERSONAL

  • Why it’s good to say, “I don’t know”

    Why it’s good to say, “I don’t know”

    I didn’t like saying, “I don’t know.” In grade school, I was diligent in my studies. One of my earliest childhood memories is practicing my handwriting at the dinner table, my mother watching closely to make sure each stroke was near perfect. I remember being so sleepy-tired, yet the habit of burning the midnight oil…

  • I tried pole dancing and my arms are killing me!

    I tried pole dancing and my arms are killing me!

    Yesterday I tried pole dancing for the first time, and today my arms complain whenever I lift them up. My legs have bruises and my thighs are sore, but I have to tell you that I feel absolutely magnificent! I have always been curious about pole dancing. It is the idea of flight that fascinates…

  • How to be a chill mother of the bride (or at least fake it)

    How to be a chill mother of the bride (or at least fake it)

    I wasn’t the best mother of the bride ever, but I thought I did a pretty good job at being a relatively chill one. A former roomie once told me that I always seem to do things ahead of everyone else, so maybe you can learn a little something from my experience. Weddings will always…

  • When we were bagets: 40 things from 40 years ago

    When we were bagets: 40 things from 40 years ago

    I woke up one morning with my feed getting quickly populated by profile badges reminding me that, oh wow, it’s been 40 years since high school! Forty years! I can hardly believe it. Where did time go? Because I’m feeling a bit nostalgic, here are 40 things from 40 years ago when we were in…

  • Catching up on falling apart

    Catching up on falling apart

    One of the things that I now have the leisure of doing: Catching up on television shows that I’ve missed. I remember being so captivated by Grey’s Anatomy with McDreamy and McSteamy, Izzie cutting Denny’s LVAD, Karev giving O’Malley syphilis, and Christina Ricci doing a cameo as a paramedic. I think I went as far…