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"What you're doing, it's important. But it's not important enough to be your whole life." -
Finally written down: my 30 Before 30 list
I still need to come up with seven more, but here is my almost-finished list of 30 things I want to accomplish before I turn 30.
1. Visit Europe again
2. Visit the Pacific northwest
3. Work at a bookstore
4. Adopt a dog
5. Try yoga
6. Try tai kwan do
7. Chop off hair for Locks of Love
8. Grow an herb garden; learn how to use them all properly
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Resolutions, because that's what this year is all about.
1. Stop getting sucked into the black hole of Netflix marathons. Also, watch better stuff. Just because "Confessions: Extreme Animal Hoarding" is available doesn't mean I need to watch it. More PBS, BBC and other awesomeness ( Read more... ) -
Finding my Groove
This is a column I wrote in last week's paper- my first ever for the Advertiser. I was nervous, but it seems like it's pretty well received so far (we'll see what the Board members have to say at their next meeting.
It feels good to write opinion again.
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Next time
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Sometimes when you're on, you're really fucking on.
I fiercely love this song. It's a gorgeous, heart-breaking punch to the gut every time I hear it ( Read more... ) -
This gave me chills.
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/ode-to-bucky-goad/
"My oldest brother was twenty-five when he had the life stabbed out of him, but I was only eight. I’ve always known that he was murdered in Paris in 1969. What I didn’t learn until recently was that his whole life was ( Read more... ) -
Quotes about journalism that I need to remember.
I really needed to hear these. Thanks to and courtesy of felixwas"Some people are so miserable that if you gave them a $20 bill, they'd bitch because you didn't give them two tens instead ( Read more... ) -
This week can suck it.
The local GOP party is trying to unseat the current town administration, so they keep sending out my town board articles with subject lines that make it sound like we're supporting them in mass emails. They also cut off the end of a recent article that included criticism from a resident of their methods. My publisher sent a cease and desist letter ( Read more... )