"Odds & Ends"

Art time

Something to Watch Every Morning

You can't beat this for its motivational value. Just try not to get up and start moving. Try.

Bookish Apocalypse

via lorinix.net

What Happens When Mommy Has Finals

Sunday in the Neighborhood

A lemonade stop at Your Healthy Kitchen

 

 

This guy? Strolling down the street. Not as slowly as you would think, either.

Last Paper!

 
 

Last Days of Homework

Mates

Mother's Day Celebration

note the teary eyes

Some of my favorite things

Homework

Quotables

David Hunter (@TheWritersDen) 4/9/12 9:44 PM My lips are fierce with passion. My heart spins fiery beats. A rhythm lives within my fingers and dances in my feet. ― Jamie Weise

The perfect scarf

I had dreamed it up almost a year ago and have been looking for it everywhere since then. Today, it was nestled in the sale bin at the GAP, just waiting. AND it was on sale for $18.99. 
It is phenomenal: soft and delicate, bodacious enough to give warmth against the wind, but light enough to pull through the summer.
Perfection, I tell you.

Unfortunately I can't find it on their website to post a link.

Finding Louise DeSalvo

I recently found out that one of my favorite former professors at Hunter, the awesome Louise DeSalvo, is recovering from surgery and chemotherapy for breast cancer. She is a brilliant academic and a writer richer in wisdom and experience than you'd think reasonable for one person. Back in 1999 (or thereabouts?) I took a class professor DeSalvo designed herself, called Writing the Wounded Body where we read a great, big stack of memoirs of illness, anorexia, rape, aging and loss and as a creative guide, her own brainchild, Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives. Her teaching and own writing have shaped so much of who I grew up to be that in my mind she's almost family.

She's been on my mind often in the past few weeks and so while poking about the web (instead of studying, of course), I googled her name and the coolest thing popped up: a personal blog she's been writing since the beginning of 2010. She's one of those writers whose every next book I wait for with baited breath, and because she is a serious writer and an academic, I never would have expected such a bounty: to be able to follow her path every few days or weeks, without five-year breaks between releases!

Aaaand, I'm pleased to present: Writing a Life.

Enjoy!

@quotejoy, 1/27/12 11:55 PM

Marta Ockuly (@quotejoy) 1/27/12 11:55 PM "Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think." Dale Carnegie

@alaindebotton, 1/25/12 3:55 AM

Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton) 1/25/12 3:55 AM It shouldn't be disrespectful to the complexity of the human condition to say that despair is also, often, just low blood sugar.

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