“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” – Khalil Gibran Sometimes I am sad. That sounds like the opening line of a third-grade essay, and not a very sprightly one. But it’s true: Sometimes I’m sad. More often I’m not. But the sadness is there, and has been [...]
I owe the internet a big kiss, because I’m now in possession of a fetching new haircut that had precisely nothing to do with me. It’s all thanks to my aunt’s scissors and your collective genius. Behold: BANGS! (And teeth the general size and demeanor of Chiclets.) It’s somewhat demoralizing to realize that I thought of [...]
My aunt owns a salon in Half Moon Bay and has graciously managed my hair for the last decade, ever since I arrived home from college and she discovered I’d been scraping it into a rubberband for four years straight. She essentially said, “Get over here,” and chopped my ponytail off. Then she restored my [...]
It breaks my heart to say this, but I gave up processed sugar over the weekend. I know. You can’t believe it. Neither can my friends, my parents, the cashiers at Miette, or that guy on the bus who was once treated to a dissertation on my banana bread. Even my blog banner registers doubt. My love [...]
Last night I got home two hours past my bedtime. I was driving myself and a friend back into the city from Palo Alto and by the time I crawled into bed my brain had shifted from “tired, must sleep” to “tired, must behave manically as prompted by the incessant humming in my ears.” Rather than [...]
When writing a post feels like trying to walk through my front door and slamming into a granite wall instead, it usually means I’m processing something – subconsciously unearthing some issue from the sticky depths of my psyche. An issue that needs tending, a warm blanket, and maybe a hearty dose of ipecac. This post has officially taken forever to [...]
On Wednesday, I went with some friends to an exhibit of original concert posters from San Francisco’s musical archives – Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, and a band improbably named Captain Beefheart. One of the posters listed an opening band at the very bottom, almost an after-thought. Like the designer [...]
Among my regrettable habits is reading Some Inspiring Blog Post and Vowing To Do What They Did For Massive Success & Maximum Fulfillment and then…not doing it. Or even remembering that I planned to do it. Yes, this is just as successful a life plan as you might imagine. Even small projects – like, say, [...]
Last week, I decided to make amazing things happen with THE POWER OF MY MIND. Don’t laugh. My mind’s been known to bend spoons. How, you ask? Because I was thinking about whether or not I have a copy of The Pickwick Papers in my storage closet and whether I should unearth it or just [...]
“This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.” – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society It probably comes as no surprise to anyone that I’ve been thinking a lot lately. This is what I do: I think. My tombstone will read: “Here Lies Moose. She Thought Entirely Too Much.” If [...]
