Posted in friendship, generosity, gifts on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Finally settled into my dear friend, Rob’s, apartment for the week, I am feeling an immense sense of calm. As the last of my belongings were expertly ushered out of my old apartment with the greatest of care by the movers, I was doing a little dance of gratitude. My friend, Dan, was one of [...]
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Posted in forgiveness, home, moving, New York City, worry on July 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The movers from Flatrate Moving have arrived! Only about an hour late – though very nice guys. I’ll take late but nice; far better than on-time and cranky. They were late because they put the wrong fuel in the truck, or someone at the company did. They had to go get a Budget rental truck [...]
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Posted in home, moving, New York City on July 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m writing to you tonight atop of a sea of brown boxes containing the tangible contents of my life. The sorting and packing processes are complete. Everything’s taped up, awaiting the movers who arrive bright and early tomorrow morning at 9. Because my new apartment’s renovations won’t be complete until mid-August, my belongings are headed [...]
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Posted in books, New York City, teaching on July 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.” ~ Frank McCourt Daily Good wrote a beautiful tribute to Frank McCourt today. Mr. McCourt passed away last week after having written a set of prize-winning books regarding his childhood in Ireland and his career teaching in New York City [...]
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Posted in apartment, business, entrepreneurship, Examiner, home, New York City, rent, technology on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s moving time again! I’ve been thinking a lot about the moving process and the hunt for apartment lately. I’ll move into my new digs next month and the movers arrive this Thursday. I can be a stressful undertaking, especially Around August 1st when the rush of students and new college graduates is hard to [...]
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Posted in art, friendship, mistakes, passion on July 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~ Howard Thurman “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”~ Scott Adams (Dilbert) Both of these quotes were provided by my [...]
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Posted in choices, discovery, friendship, hope, writing on July 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. I’m now nearly 7 months through my 1 year commitment to actively search for hope every day and write about it. I’m in the thick of it and the remaining months of 2009 seem to be just around [...]
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Posted in art, career, choices, dreams, friendship, goals on July 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” ~ William James I have a hard time letting things go. I have to watch movies straight through to the end, no matter how bad they are. I have to finish every book I start. Nothing causes me to lose sleep more [...]
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Posted in health, productivity, time, youth on July 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.” ~ Charles Richards I am obsessed with productivity. (On occasion, I have [...]
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Posted in blog, personality. relationships, Seth Godin, writing on July 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Seth Godin wrote a post this morning about island living as it relates to marketing. With the increasing number of new technologies that keep us ever-connected to one another, we are all closer than ever. There’s truly nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. Customers are only a tweet away. This principle relates to many [...]
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