This weekend, I cleaned out my closet, something long overdue. I took everything out, weighed its value – to me in usefulness, not it’s monetary value – and sorted it into piles. One pile for fabric recycling. One pile for the thrift store I support. One pile for the organization that helps battered women in …
When I was a little girl, I saw my mom at work every day. Here’s what I saw her doing: Getting us out of bed Cooking for us and making our lunches Washing dishes Dropping us off at school Vacuuming and dusting Doing laundry Ironing Cleaning up our messes and the messes that our pets …
Yesterday was the perfect day to wear the most beautiful boots that I own. I fell in love with these boots immediately: they are the perfect height, made of butter-soft leather, lined with suede. The black finish is flawless. I waited until they were on sale and then forked over more money than I’ve ever …
At lunch yesterday, a colleague and I were joking about what we had done during pandemic lockdown. What we had binge-watched. Courses we had taken. I mentioned Futures Thinking and Behavioral Science. He laughed and said, “And JQL.” I laughed, too, but for a different reason. JQL had been new to me a few years …
Few people know that I was a clown in high school. Literally. I belonged to a clown troop that raised money for charity. We raised money by running the Easter Bunny and Santa’s Elves photo concessions as the mall, dressing up in costumes and taking pictures with crying children. But the highlight of our year …
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