As I was cleaning/organizing our office closet the other day (read: moving boxes around and not really doing much else), I found a hockey jersey that was one of my prized possessions when I was a teenager. A lot of my friends and I owned hockey jerseys and some owned what the NHL shop calls …
Tag: Reflections
Personal Archaeology 25: Pictures You Never Took of Things That Are No Longer There
It's September 11, which means that my social media feeds have more than one commemorative status. They're not as abundant this year as they were last year, which marked 20 years since the attacks, so I didn't find myself facing as many eagles, flags, and "Never Forget" posts as usual. That's made scrolling a little …
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Personal Archaeology 22: On College, Philosophy, Love, Friendship, and Acceptance
So I have been part of a listserv for My So-Called Life fandom for 20 years. The emails flowed from a trickle to a complete stop years ago when a number of us shifted over to social media or moved on altogether, but back in October, it sprang to life again for a little while. …
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The Freedom is Tyranny of the To-Do List III: The Domination
So I was talking to my therapist this week about my issue with long-term projects with a "large" starting point. I used the analogy of a cluttered room (of which I have more than one in the house)--you know you have to start somewhere, but it all looks so overwhelming that you find yourself throwing …
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Thanks for the Livestock
The other day, I was trying to write a Thanksgiving-themed post in my notebook and it was a complete mess. I could not get beyond feeling like things had not gotten better than they were last year, even though I was glad that my suspicions that I was suffering from depression were confirmed. I guess …
Personal Archaeology 19: Applied
"Erika 9 typewriter" by shordzi is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 I'm helping my seniors with their Common Application essays in my AP Lit class. This is, I fully admit, one of my favorite things about the beginning of the school year. It's an assignment that helps me get to know them but also lets me put on my …
Personal Archaeology 18: That One Summer
Part of my 1994-1995 scrapbook project. At left: an essay about being in Paris. At right: a page of all of us taking pictures of each other taking pictures at the top of The Arc De Triomphe. Among the three notebooks (and several folders of MS Word files) I have left from my personal journal …
Return of the Writing Pile
A little more than two years ago, I wrote about how, in the twenty years since I graduated college, I have written a lot but actually never considered myself a Writer. Much of that has to do with the lack of formally published works, which I could blame on gatekeeping if I ever actually stepped …
Okay, now. Reset for real this time.
I got my annual planner in the mail yesterday. Yeah, I'm one of those people who still uses a paper day planner, because while I do put appointments into my phone's calendar app, I still find that when I physically write things down and cross/check them off, I feel a sense of organization (or at …
The Art of the Decluttering Video
Screencap of a "Spring Cleaning Videos" playlist I made on YouTube. So back in March, I was pretty psyched about getting some spring cleaning done, so I decided to psych myself by watching some decluttering videos. Good God, that sounds lame. But really, I was bored on my lunch break and clicked an Abundantly Minimal …
The Uncollecting 