I was listening to my local NPR station yesterday and heard about the recent trend of Tweens posting YouTube videos to ask “Am I Pretty or Ugly?”
The station played an audio clip of a young girl pleading for someone to tell her if she’s pretty or not because her friends say she isn’t and she doesn’t really feel pretty but, like, she doesn’t really feel…
On my last trip to San Francisco I was driving around the city completely trusting the Mapquest app on my iPhone to get me where I needed to go. When I missed an exit, I heard the oh-so-familiar GPS voice chanting “Recalculating…”
I slowed down a bit to wait for the next set of instructions and before long I was back on track and speeding down…
When it comes to punctuation marks, exclamation points are definitely my favorite.
I mean, commas and periods don’t strike me as particularly special. They’re just utilitarian and necessary.
Semi-colons and colons often leave me befuddled.
And while I do deliberately use a lot of question marks (which definitely come in a strong second), I still hope that when the tally is taken upon my final breath that I…
I’m a firm believer in what Brenda Ueland calls moodling, “long inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.”
In a weird time-twisting way, I’ve discovered that one secret to getting a lot done is being willing to spend a lot of time alone doing nothing at all!
Gazing out a window with a cup of tea. Soaking in a bath. Sitting still and paying attention to the breath.
And…
Check out these fab eBay vintage auctions ending in the next five days including pieces by Alfred Shaheen, Malcolm Starr, and Hattie Carnegie. Be sure to check out the vintage 1960s fringe cropped pants (perfect for New Year’s Eve) and the fab vintage 1960s leather and brass belt.
Going, Going, GONE!
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(Auctions all end within the next 5 days.)
Vintage 1970s…
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