A few nights ago, I came across some notes I took a while ago on Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher in an old journal. By "notes," I really mean I basically copied down a bunch of stuff from the second chapter. I'm going to copy them down here again because I found them interesting, and I wonder if anyone has a ( Read more... )

So as you may have noticed from my NaNoWriMo page, I didn't make it this year. The current word count is accurate. Just couldn't do it this time ( Read more... )

Ba-tweet-tweet. So it goes. ( Read more... )

You know the drill by now:
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So help me out here - I'm trying to come up with a pithy logo for a bumper sticker from a Lake Ridge-style high school. (To everyone who didn't go to my high school - think small secular private school, very focused on academics, horrible at sports). I'm not letting this little detail stop me, but here are some possibilities I came up with today:

• No ( Read more... )

So what can I talk about that isn't politics? Oh, okay, how about NaNoWriMo. Only two weeks to go until the big kickoff. A couple of weekends ago, I was having dinner with Ryan, Kari and Nate, all of whom are in on the exercise. When I brought it up, Nate and Ryan got pretty stoked about their ideas. I don't know. I guess if I don't feel the same ( Read more... )

"I hereby forgive all who have hurt me, all who have wronged me, whether deliberately or inadvertently, whether by word or by deed. May no one be punished on my account."- bit from the Yom Kippur service that I copied down this morning ( Read more... )