I’ve taken the past couple of months off from blogging – a move I didn’t exactly plan, but which has proven to be really useful to me. Sometimes it’s good, I think, to just step back and take a look around – at where you are, where you’ve been, where you’re going (or want to … Continue reading »
Wonder Woman
The little girl superhero strode confidently across the beige carpet of the living room across the Hall of Justice, the high-tech home base of the Superfriends, heading for the vast hangar that housed her invisible jet. Wonder Woman was on the job. She was a small girl, not-quite four, spunky and sparkling a princess of … Continue reading »
Practical Matters
I mentioned previously that I had some unexpected success in freelancing this past year. Ultimately, the company I was doing most of my work for wasn’t one that I wanted to continue working with, for a few reasons – but I learned a LOT. One thing that particularly surprised me about the whole experience: navigating … Continue reading »
The Post With 15 Links
I had planned to blog tonight. My primary blogging goal for 2013 is to post something AT LEAST once a week – and I’m actually penciling it onto my calendar to make sure it happens! But I’m working on a couple of essays at the moment that I want to submit for possible publication (I … Continue reading »
Fears, Emotions and Writing
If you are controlled by your fears and emotions, you have sacrificed your personal power. —Baron Baptiste (from his book, Journey Into Power, page 18) I read through most of Baron Baptiste’s book on New Year’s Eve. I’d been wanting to read it for a while, as I’ve been slowly getting back into yoga, and … Continue reading »
Writing About Meaningful Things is Freaking Hard
I’ve been trying for over a week to write this post. It didn’t originally have its current title; that’s the desperation title. This wasn’t supposed to be a desperation post. This was supposed to be a lucid piece of writing, explaining what it was exactly about Kate Christensen’s novel, Trouble, that appealed to me so … Continue reading »
Rediscovering Novels
First, some background: In January 2011, I moved into a short-term rental house in Greenbelt, MD, on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., with my then-husband, our four-year-old son, our not-quite-two-year-old daughter, and our dog, Thursday – a big black lab mix who loves us and maybe four other people in the world like crazy, and … Continue reading »
A Fairly Self-Indulgent Post
I perhaps shouldn’t worry about seeming self-indulgent when I blog. I mean, there’s something inherently self-indulgent in keeping a blog in the first place, I think – at least a blog like this one, that exists to showcase things I’m thinking about. Just keeping a blog like this sort of implies right away that I … Continue reading »
My Favorite D.C. Museum?
I want to write a post about my experiences museum-ing in Washington, D.C., this summer – particularly as I’ve done it entirely with two little kids in tow. I have a few things to say about that! But I’ve been trying first to determine which one, of all of the really wonderful museums I’ve visited, … Continue reading »
Lalla Essaydi at the National Museum of African Art
A “Favorites” Update! (I haven’t done one of these in a while.) I saw a really fascinating exhibit today, at the Museum of African Art (one of the Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C.) The artist was a Moroccan-born woman named Lalla Essaydi. She used textiles and henna, and placed her subjects in a harem setting, … Continue reading »
