On the ride back to Beverly (two buses, 13 hours, no sleep 'til Brooklyn, etc.), Greg Schram shot me a note to watch this TED talk by Brene Brown on vulnerability.

I've been humbled again and again this year by the acts of vulnerability committed by my friends. It's been a particularly hard year for almost everyone I know, and it's stunning how ( Read more... )

Three weeks before I need to get a solid plan into the readmissions board about what I'm going to be doing if I come back to school in January, and I feel no closer to an answer now than I was at the beginning of the summer.

I thought, for about a week, that trying to come up with an IM would be a GREAT idea, then had my bubble burst in a series of ( Read more... )

 
( Tiny Acorns )

Okay-so, one of the biggest problems I’ve been having is just being able to sit down and write through whatever bullshit is running through my head. I overthink what’s being yet-to-be-written, I overedit what’s already there, and often, by the end of one writing session on the computer, I end up with a page full of nothing.

So, here’s a practice I’m ( Read more... )