Work work work work work

Yesterday, I lifted weights for the first time in five years. Ok, so I’ve lifted, like, little five pound weights since then; I’m talking about “lifting weights” in the total bro sense of actually going down to that bottom level of the gym that you didn’t even know existed and Read more…

Reluctant Letter to my Younger Self

Dear baby Rose, I’m writing this letter many, many weeks after it was suggested to me by one of our readers. Oh yeah, you have a blog now. Anyway, I didn’t really want to write this letter for a variety of reasons, but I find myself today (Tuesday aka blog-posting Read more…

Yes, and abracadabra

I met someone who hated improv comedy. “It’s just some people going up onstage and saying the most absurd things they can think of in an attempt to get laughs.” I love improv comedy. I fought this person vehemently. “If that is what performers are doing, then they aren’t really Read more…

Stillness

It’s something difficult to write about (for me, at least) because I find it easier to write about topics as I am actively imagining them. But to write about stillness while experiencing (or remembering) stillness takes practice, I think. It’s not something possible to do every day, to at once Read more…

Little Joy

I’ve heard that all adults are truly children at heart who just pretend to know what they are doing. I often feel that way…and I usually don’t even bother to pretend to know what I am doing… Perhaps we don’t give children enough credit. Children believe that anything is possible. Read more…

Commitment

I think one of the most important decisions that I have made in my life so far was the decision to get a tattoo. Sure, the timing and reasons for getting one might seem a bit questionable but I find it hard to believe that I will ever come to Read more…