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: confidence
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 …
Patron Saint of Having a Good Time
I have always been afraid to be alone. If I wanted to nap, I found a boy to come over and take one with me. If I wanted to study, I had friends over. I even found someone to go to a 6AM Bootcamp class with me in college. We rode the campus bus in …
“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 …
