Although I’ve been making progress bit-by-bit, I am horrifically behind on all of my 2019 reviews and 2020 planning. I could blame it on the fact that we’re selling our home and getting ready to start a new life 1,300 miles from the home I’ve known for the past 12-plus years . . . actually,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah The waiting is the hardest part ~Tom Petty, The Waiting If patience is a virtue then I am virtueless. Completely destitute. San virtues. Well, at least when it comes to waiting for books. In my attempt for less, I have shifted from purchasing each and every book I want to
“The world was hers for the reading.” – Betty Smith I recently took an online quiz that calculates your reading speed and then estimates the number of books you could read if you did so for just 30 minutes per day. My number was 83 books. This revelation triggered simultaneous feelings of excitement (I can
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” – Lemony Snicket I set a variety of reading goals for myself this year in an attempt to 1) read more books, 2) participate fully in book club discussions and, 3) challenge myself by reading books I wouldn’t normally choose. And, while I
This week’s takeaway is that summer colds suck — especially when temps are consistently 90-degrees plus. On a positive note, I seem to actually be on the mend. I say actually because I began feeling better mid-week only to have my symptoms alter from a gross cough to more of a head cold with sniffling
Can you believe we’re already half-way through 2018? Or, to put it another way, only 171 days until Christmas! Thankfully, despite having just a few things going on this year, I’ve managed to find time here and there to turn some pages which has resulted in my being ahead overall in my reading goals this year. However,
I decided to go festive with my annual hosting of book club this year by serving a traditional Polish recipe — bigos (hunter’s stew) — a dish said to be close to 700-years old. The topic of the evening was The Lilac Girls (highly recommend), a WWII- era book taking place in America, Poland and France. During
With all of the major life changes that took place in 2017, one area of my life that was a bit neglected was reading. Gratefully, nights spent reading on the couch next to my fiance (where he is also reading) is not uncommon, but less time on the train and just less time dedicated to
List, lists, lists. I love lists. (I’m really hoping you just gave that your best Ron Burgandy treatment. And, if not, you should definitely go back and read it again and apply it.) I make them weekly to track MITs, daily to capture to-dos and I create monthly and annual goals (although lately, I’ve been
Part of setting a goal that you then share publicly with friends + family + blog readers (which, let’s be honest, for me are primarily comprised of folks from the first two groups) is that you’re now on the hook for being accountable for that goal. So, here goes — checking in for the first
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