Hey, everybody! Welcome to the last installment of my series on making next year the best year of your life. This one is my favorite part! I’ll start out by telling you about my favorite comic strip when I was a kid: Peanuts. In one strip, Lucy is at the mailbox, telling Charlie Brown that she’s just sent in her
Category: Semi-Charmed Life.
Hey there! Welcome back to this series about making the next year your Best Year Yet. Last week, we talked about choosing one word that we hope will sum up the next year. Mine was romance. Other people’s words included writing, writing and networking, exploration, restoration, regeneration, completion, change, and focus. Some people don’t make resolutions, period, which is fine. In fact,
Hey there! Welcome to a new week, and to the next installment of my series on make the next year your best year yet. Even if you’ve never figured out how to stick to new year’s resolutions in the past, I’m hoping this series can help us all make better plans than we have before. In parts one and two,
Hi, everyone! Welcome to a new week, and another part of my series about planning your best year yet. In part one, I reflected on this year’s triumphs and joys, defeats and sorrows. I felt a little embarrassed to write down my defeats, because some of them were squarely in my control. In fact, a couple of you were surprised
Why am I posting today about frugal and thrifty romance? Well, I’ll tell you! Last week, Mr. Donovan got laid off after 13 years with the same company. Neither of us knew it was coming. It certainly wasn’t about performance: he’s a great copywriter, copy editor, and proofreader, besides being literally the nicest person anyone has ever met. I can’t say
A friend of mine in our goals group told us about how every month, she watches one of her “foundational” movies. These are movies that have particular meaning for her, and that she finds grounding to watch them. And several of her favorite movies were my favorite movies, which may be one of the reasons why we get along so
Most of us believe in the value of venting. “I just need to get it off my chest,” we say, or “I just need to blow off some steam.” By complaining, we believe that we won’t carry the negativity inside of us any more, because we let it out. It makes so much sense! Except that it doesn’t always work