I finished my fourth week of Improv 101 last Friday. It gets better every time I go. The more I get to know my fellow classmates, the safer I feel to be myself, to take a couple risks, and to make a complete fool of myself. I have never generated so many scenes, so many …
Tag: 365 day challenge
Set a Course For: Happiness
Over the past couple of months I've drifted away from posts about writing to posts about dreaming, goal-setting, and chasing happiness. I'm not mad about it. And I am especially not mad since it seems you guys are enjoying it more as well. The themes are more universal and my weird and wacky journey with writing …
When You Crash and then Burn Real Hard
I had a bit of a breakdown last week and by a "bit" I mean "total". I almost thought I shouldn't share that here, since I am all about motivation and aspiration, but having total breakdowns is part of the program. You don't get anywhere by being stagnant and sometimes a good cry is all …
“Stay weird. Stay different.”
Sometimes I write shit to myself on post-it notes. And then I tear them up and throw them away. But today I was sitting here thinking about how I had NOTHING to offer this week on the blog (brain is frying) when I thought, "Just share the post-it. Post-its look cool once they're scanned." I'm …
The One Thing I’m Too Afraid to Try…
I found an entry in my 5 Year Journal (I keep one because I am painfully introspective) from this time last year and in it I ask myself not only what I wanted to be when I grew up but if I could even ask that anymore. Can I, at 27, ask people what they …
