Dear Brain, I am healthy, have a good job, two degrees, a healthy and loving romantic relationship, and am writing almost regularly – could you please stop trying to convince me that I am a failure or that I am doing something wrong? I really would just like to enjoy feeling happy. Sincerely, Anxious Twenty-Something…
Tag: life struggles
This Week Ten Years Ago
The Week of 6/4/2006 Witty one liner: Your cellphone makes you twice as annoying Quote of the week: None Planner Quote: “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Planner Quote 2.0: “Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the…
This Week Ten Years Ago
The Week of 5/28/2006 Witty one liner: I smile because I have no idea what’s going on Quote of the week: None Offbeat oddity (courtesy of the planner): Starfish have multiple eyes, one at the end of each leg. This witty one liner is another one of my life philosophies. I smile and smile…
NYC Monday Morning
They have the shell-shocked, thousand-yard, dead-eyed stare of war survivors, but it’s really just NYC on a Monday morning. They stare vacantly at the opposite wall and he has his hand on her thigh. After a few minutes she regains some awareness and starts aimlessly looking around the train.
Dear Weather
Dear Weather, Could you please stop fucking around and just pick a damn season? Sincerely, Sick of Getting Sick
#17 – Supers are SO Paranoid
This is number seventeen of the top 30 reasons for why normal people should not date a superhero(ine). Remember supers! This is all in good fun, BUT if you see yourself in these reasons you should consider altering your behavior in order to keep your beloved! [In no particular order, except for number one because that’s my…
This Week Ten Years Ago
The Week of 5/14/2006 Witty one liner: I’m not crazy, my reality is just different than yours. Quote of the week: “Don’t worry, if that question comes [up], I’ll just confuse them.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower Offbeat oddity (courtesy of the planner): It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery…
This Week Ten Years Ago + 1 Week
The Week of 5/7/2006 Witty one liner: Be nice to your kids…they’ll choose your nursing home. Quote of the week: “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” – Danny Kaye Planner Quote: “A little nonsense now & then is relished by the wisest man.” – Roald…
This Week Ten Years Ago
The Week of 4/30/2006 Witty one liner: Nobody is perfect, I am nobody. Therefore, I am perfect. Quote of the week: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Ghandi Planner Quote: “Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won’t take…
And One More Thing, Present Michelle
And One More Thing, Present Michelle, Stop making cookie dough and eating it straight out of the fridge. Also, could you please get off your ass and do that exercise plan you keep talking about? It would be reaaaaaally helpful right about now. Not Bathing Suit Ready, Future Michelle P.S. – Past Michelle was right.
This Week Ten Years Ago
The Week of 4/23/2006 Witty one liner: I’m not completely useless, I can be used for bad examples. Quote of the week: “The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.” – Anonymous Offbeat oddity (courtesy of the planner): Ninety percent of all species…
Yeah, Really, Present Michelle
Yeah, Really, Present Michelle, Get over yourself and how about you put that doughnut down and think about Future Michelle? She’s going to be yelling at you for it soon! Unrepentant, Past Michelle
Little Gentian 