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Posted on June 29, 2008. Filed under: books, movies, work | Tags: books, debate, entrepreneurship, jobs, movie, Resolved, soul, spirit, Web 2.0, work |
I’ve been thinking a lot lately. I’ve been reading this book, Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good, about the people who made “Web 2.0” a reality.
It has made me think a number of things. First, I shoulda learned to code… there’s a dire shortage of estrogen in Silicon Valley and I coulda been the [...]
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Posted on June 25, 2008. Filed under: Random, blogging, books, exercise, insight, writing | Tags: bikes, blogging, books, dogs, exercise, kids, life, pets, reading, writing |
We’ve established that I’m horrible at blogging. In an effort to get better, here are some random happenings:
Some bratty kid kicked my dog at the pet store the other day. Just walked right up and kicked her. Then the parents SORTA said “sorry” before picking up the kid, hugging her and telling her it was [...]
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Posted on April 22, 2008. Filed under: Morning Freewrite, Random, books, boredom, drink, family, food, friends, inertia, insight, music, pop culture, relationships, travel, tv, weight loss, work, writing | Tags: addiction, books, cars, coffee, dad, dogs, eating, freewriting, jobs, music, procrastination, sleep, tv |
I read somewhere that you’re supposed to write for 15-20 minutes each morning, kind of a stream of consciousness thing because your brain cant censor your thoughts until you’ve woken up a bit.
Well, I’ve already gotten up, taken out the trash, walked the dog and started the coffee, but I’m ridiculously tired, so it’s hard [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2008. Filed under: Random, books, boredom, fashion, insight, lists, memories, music, pop culture, travel, writing | Tags: bags, books, camera, flobots, Gap, goals, gucci, handlebars, jewelry, lia sophia, makeup, music, Old Crow Medicine Show, Random, reading, self-reflection, shoes, silpada, weather |
My blog stats have been WAY up the last few days so I was trying to think of something to write to keep up the momentum. For inspiration, I used my trusty friend the tag surfer and happened upon this blog and decided to do my own version. Maybe I’ll be inspired [...]
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Posted on April 18, 2008. Filed under: Random, books, current events, movies, politics | Tags: books, film, FLDS, Jon Krakauer, LDS, media, mormons, news, nonfiction, polygamy, PR, religion, religious fundamentalism |
I’ll admit it… I’m fascinated by Mormons. No, strike that: I’m fascinated by Mormon Fundamentalists. No, to be fair, I’m fascinated by *any* kind of religious fundamentalism. And I find polygamy interesting.
But all this coverage of the Warren Jeffs scandal is becoming a little much.
I first read about Jeffs [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2008. Filed under: books, lists | Tags: books, books about lists, lists |
My obsession with lists goes back to fifth grade. Our teacher, Mrs. Seaney, had us keep journals. She would give us a daily journal prompt to respond to. If we didn’t like the prompt, there was a list of other activities we could do. One of them was to make a list. I thought that [...]
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Posted on March 30, 2008. Filed under: books, lists | Tags: authors, bill clinton, book club, books, frida kahlo, unread books |
Unfinished Business
So, I’m a reader, right? I learned to read at age 3 and ever since I’ve listed “reading” as one of my favorite hobbies. I have a built-in bookshelf in my living room, I work for an organization devoted to literacy and I’m even a member of a book club.
There’s [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008. Filed under: books, classic posts, insight |
Crashing Through
Category: Writing and Poetry
Crashing Through
So, I’m in a book club with some people from work (yeah, yeah… I work for an organization of English teachers, what did you expect?) and our book this month (my pic) as called Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See by [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008. Filed under: books, classic posts, inertia, insight | Tags: diablo cody, feeling lame, searching for adventure, strippers |
This is the post that started it all… I’ve been blogging over on mySpace for a couple years now and decided to upgrade to a “real” blog. I’m calling it “This Vanilla Life” because lately I’ve been feeling very plain, very vanilla… I plan on re-posting some of my better posts as “classics” [...]
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