May 2013
2 posts
“Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand...”
– William Blake
August 2012
1 post
July 2012
2 posts
“like accolades ought to be, the fulfilled life is a consequence, a gratifying...”
– david mccullough jr., an english teacher at wellesley high school in massachusetts
June 2012
22 posts
The Trader Joe's Identity
so i’m still getting a hang of this blog thing and managing my time well enough to post consistently. working out the kinks people, bare with me.
yesterday, i was going about my normal nightly routine - went to the gym then drove to trader joe’s to do my grocery shopping for the week. every time i go to trader joe’s i revel in how much i love that place. yesterday in particular...
Imagine A Story
ever since i was young, i’ve never had a problem falling asleep. in fact, it’s quite the opposite. i can pretty much fall asleep anywhere and sleep through just about anything. my mother always tells this story about the first time we went to iran when i was three. we had a 20 hour lay-over in Germany and so she hopped on a bus to see a friend for the day. she claims that i was asleep,...
Opportunity Cost of Going to The Gym
since moving to los angeles at the age of 18, my awareness of my body and the way i look have exponentially increased. i’ve also become aware of the fact that as a woman, there are tremendous benefits to being in the top 10% of what the majority of the population considers ‘attractive’. yet, there is a point of diminishing returns where if you happen to be too...
The Names of Love
and so we stumble upon another thing i love - film.
movies, good movies, are the perfect glimpse at experiences, lessons and novelties in pure observational form. movies are like watching other peoples’ lives behind a 2-way mirror. i am able to see emotion on the actors’ faces, read their body language, and incorporate yet one more lens to the many in which i see my...
… music as expression of emotion …
My Modified Only Child Experience
i grew up an only child. only children are interesting. originally, psychologists studying birth order marked only children as being spoiled, bad at sharing and collaboration, and starved for adult attention. luckily, recent research tends to be less unkind. only children learn people skills predominantly from their parents and seem to resemble super firstborn children - ambitious, articulate,...
See Me
when i moved in with my mother at the age of 7, the lessons life was teaching me shifted from the academically focused environment my father had created for me to lessons about people and human interactions. i spent a good deal of my elementary, middle and high school career being ‘made fun of’. and the time i spent at home was best used figuring out my mother and her never-ending list...
Raising A Blog
so, i’ve successfully made it through a few days of this blogging business. round of applause. but now, the question is how do i decide WHAT to write about and how will all my posts flow together? Will there be a recurring theme that connects each post to the others? as you can see, my over-thinking has no bounds. yet, i feel this internal obligation to start at what might be considered the...
Redemption
well, as the avid over-thinker that i am, i felt maybe some clarification was necessary in regards to my mother. the last thing i want is my daughter saying “why did you say all those mean things about grandma”… -_____-
i think everyone might understand my relationship with my mother if i begin by saying we function a bit more like sisters who have this deeply rooted love /...
Like Mother? Like Father?
i think it’s safe to say my parents have been a reoccurring theme in my life. i find it fascinating that these two people created me. there couldn’t be two more different people on the planet. i guess i’m living proof that a bird and a fish can indeed procreate.
my mother has been through a lot in life. no one ever asked her what she wanted. no one nurtured her interests or...
Justification
i suppose i have always kept my relationship with the internet ‘community’ at arms length. i don’t think i ever really found a powerful enough reason to post my thoughts in a public space, and, not to mention, my skepticism about how interesting i really am.
however, lucky for the public space, i imagine that if there is anyone who might find my rambling ridiculous thoughts...
