Many of you have no doubt seen various versions of the “100 Things To Do Before You Die” posts roaming about on The Internets in the past week or so, one of which activity-laden list was written by one Mrs. Maggie Mason, and subsequently picked up by other awesome blog-owners like this one and this [...]

Last Saturday I posted this mosaic of photos from around Flickr that I favorited sometime in November of 2007. It was something I started last year, posting (all too) carefully compiled mosaics of recently favorited photos, to keep a mental and visual record of sorts, and because I think mosaics are rather awesome. Sometime last [...]

I want to:
do something relevant.
do something challenging.
volunteer more often.
carve out writing time for myself daily.
I want to think:
that I am capable enough to accomplish any task, no matter how challenging.
seriously about what I want to do career-wise, and what it’s going to take to get there.
about everything I say before I say it.
I want to [...]

As a Sneak Peek Sunday bonus! I bring you: some Mobile, Alabama trivia, for those hard to start dinner party conversations, or those awkward moments around the water jug at work, where, in my work experience, no one really stands to chat anyway:

Jimmy Buffet was (born in Mississippi and) raised in Mobile, Alabama, where eventually [...]

I see her almost everyday, walking briskly from a bustling downtown square, headed slightly west, her coffee in her left hand, a portfolio in her right. Sometimes she has an umbrella, but most of the time she is nearly running, seemingly almost to her destination, head down, eyes focused on not tripping nor slowing her [...]

Ah, yes, now! is the time of year for being exceedingly determined about accomplishing the previously unaccomplished, about completing that which seems impossible without the gentle poking and prodding of goals staring us in the face via our own handwriting written decisively on carefully selected paper once every year.
Lofty ambitions like say, for example: eating [...]

Pet peeves. We all have them, whether we can list them in order of most peevish or not. (I can’t. I love lists, and list-making, but I’ve never been good with ordering them.) They aren’t particularly bright and shining moments in our repertoires of patience, understanding and good will toward men, but they are real, [...]

Many a moon ago the floral-laden Mrs. Daisy tagged me for a “five things you don’t know about me” meme. More recently, but still quite a few moons past (I am nothing if not prompt), the wonderfully bohemian Jeanine tagged me for a Stuart Smalley sort of game, wherein you freely admit to liking [...]

“I didn’t have time to put in a zipper.”
“I was a total queen.”
“Its freak-out time here ladies and gentlemen.”
“My model loves my outfit, and I love my outfit as well.”
“You do? I don’t; I think there’s some hand-sewn crap up in here.”
“It’s so ‘dressed in the dark.’”
“Can you imagine the next day The New York [...]

A few months ago I joined a book club. My first ever, and boy did I feel instant book geek gratification. A book! club. Where all we do is eat dessert! and read! books! One could pass out from the sheer excitement of it all.
But, seriously. I was excited. Because strawberries and home-made pound-cake? SO [...]