Three Things

A few months ago I took a poetry therapy workshop where we did a number of exercises based on various poems.   We read the following excerpt from “In Blackwater Woods,” by Mary Oliver: “…To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your …

Studio Apartment

An itty bitty studio apartment is for sale(!) in my neighborhood and because I can technically afford to buy it on my own I am diving headlong into a daydream of buying it and making it mine. You may know by now that I have a fondness for little things, and a studio apartment is like the grown-up-in-the-city version of …

Some Updates

Hi, all. I hope you had a wonderful Y”T, or at least an okay one. I did b”H (have a wonderful one) because I have such cute little people in my life that I finally got to see!   What’s going on in your life right now? Here’s my roundup:   Working full-time as a social worker for a national …

No Plan B

After writing this bucket list post, I continued to give a lot of thought to what I want out of life. I realized I can attain almost every item on the list on my own (with a lot of work and maybe some out-of-the-box thinking). I reflected that as much as I want to be married, I can’t control that …

Bucket List

I searched Modern Mrs. Darcy, a book review blog, for an old post and found this great one. I have not read the book referenced — 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think, by Laura Vanderkam — but I am absolutely planning on doing the exercise mentioned of making a list of 100 dreams. Off the top of …

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