Why am I making these motivational quote things? Because it’s harder to feel happy and do great things when you don’t think you’re all that great… and I hear people say terrible things about themselves all the time. I know they’re doing it even more in their heads. I do it too! I forget something? “I’m so stupid!” (“Absent-minded” ≠ “stupid.”) I get excited about something? “Sorry,
Category: Semi-Charmed Life
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Here are some things I read and liked lately! Beneath Sleepless Stars, Elizabeth Cole. I really love this title and this cover! This is the fifth in the Secrets of the Zodiac series, but it was the first one I read, and it stands alone just fine. I liked the intrigue, the atypical heroine, and the realistic development of the
In a great moment in the finale of the TV show The Office, the character Andy realized that a job he viewed as a way station rather than a destination is one that he will miss terribly. In the past week, friends of mine have kids who are going to grade school for the first time, and off to college the
When I was finishing up my MFA in Creative Writing, I had no job prospects. My experience impressed no one. Besides being an instructor at the university, I had been a cocktail waitress, a breakfast waitress at a place called The Eggery that was perpetually out of eggs, an artists’ model, a retail worker, and a person who pestered shoppers to take surveys
A year or two ago, someone in one of my writing groups told me she didn’t like to smile too much because of the gap between her front teeth. I pointed out that some extremely attractive celebrities have imperfect teeth, such as Anthony Mackie… and Tom Hardy. I understood how she felt, though. When I was growing up, my parents
Here are some books lately that I read and enjoyed! If I start reading something and I don’t get into it for whatever reason, I just set it aside and pick up something else. It wouldn’t be fair to comment on a book I didn’t finish, so I can really only tell you about the ones I liked. Chances are