The cartoon above was the first one to pop up in my image search for reframe. The article, which I’ve linked to the photo above, once again shows that every time I have an idea, someone else has thought of it first and written about it better. I don’t let that fact stop me because…
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239. Why Today isn’t Special
If you read and remember my post from one week ago today, you might recall that the title was the exact opposite of today’s. Well, that’s not a mistake. On her podcast, Gretchen Rubin has said that the opposite of a profound truth is also true. Today, I’m going with that. As I wrote last…
238. Why Today is Special
I like the image above, which was the first one to show in a Google image search for “one chance to live today,” even though I don’t understand what the water or hand mean. Maybe is an upper-body version of “You can step into the same stream only once.” In any case, you can click…
237. Why It’s Okay to Be Not Okay
For the second time, I’ve come up with a title for my blog post only to find out there’s already a television show with the same title. In this case, the show is South Korean, but I assure you that the title on the screenshot/link above, in case you can’t read it, translates to the…
236. Why Take Mulligans
I don’t play golf. My husband tried to teach me, about a quarter of a century ago, shortly after we moved to a campus that sits in the middle of a golf course, but a love of golfing didn’t take. I do, however, love the idea of taking a mulligan. At so many points in…
235. Why Name It
Often, I’ll start thinking about a phrase I want to use as a title for one of my posts and end up realizing I have more to say than what led me to the idea in the first place. Sometimes, several ideas show me how they’re connected and form into a unified point. With today’s…
NetGalley Review of Baby Bank
title: Baby Bank author: Sarah Robinson publisher: books by Sarah Robinson publication date: September 19, 2023 pages: 320 peppers: 3 (on this scale) warnings: talk of nausea talk of past sexual assault and maternal death summary: Mila, current lawyer and up-and-coming stand-up comic decides to use an app to find a donor so that she can become…
NetGalley Review of Will They or Won’t They
title: Will They or Won’t They author: Ava Wilder publisher: Dell publication date: June 27, 2023 pages: 384 peppers: 3 (on this scale) warnings: divorced parents mental illness panic attack drinking/hangovers summary: Nine years ago, Lilah and Shane got cast together on a television show because of their amazing chemistry. Unable to control said spark at…
234. Why Your Words Don’t Matter
I’ve devoted a lot of years of my life to teaching students that their words matter. As an English teacher, I help students expand their vocabularies and learn to produce and organize words carefully. I spent more time than I would have liked during my first year as a dean both educating and punishing people…
233. Why Our Missing Hearts
If you’ve met me, you’ve heard me talk about my love of romance novels. I don’t generally read any speculative fiction, but loving a happily-ever-after doesn’t mean I don’t find fascinating the “what if?” trope of speculative fiction. Since I first read it in middle school, I’ve loved that Ray Bradbury short story about stepping…