Ever notice that you can fly through a 500-page fiction novel in two days, but it can take over a month to read a 200-page nonfiction novel? Fiction is easy because you don’t take a lot of notes and can just enjoy the story. Maybe that approach is why I can’t write fiction. Thanks for… Read More »
Indian weddings are a merry affair. At least in my family. Everyone flies in from everywhere and we create a giant reunion with food and activity and laughter that lasts for more than a few days. They’re pretty fun. In August 2018, I went to the wedding of a close cousin. On the final day… Read More »
Book reviews! Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment by Gay Hendricks and Kathlyn Hendricks This book explains how to have a happy, healthy relationship with yourself and others. The authors explain that co-dependency is bad, but co-commitment (a word they just made up) is good. People in a codependent relationship limit each other’s potential by helping… Read More »
For the last ten months, I’ve been experimenting with workout and diet to try to chisel out six abdominal muscles that I could then photograph and you could then admire. I’d put it on the Instagram and watch the little red hearts patter in. 52 likes! That’s a record! This is happiness, right? To that… Read More »
Do you see the world as a prison or a playground? If you answered prison, I have a book for you to check out. Michael Pollan just explored the history and the science and the experience of using certain chemicals found in mushrooms and ergot to reset your brain. Go read it. I’ll wait. It’s called How to Change… Read More »
When I chit-chat with people, I always ask them if they have read anything interesting lately. I can’t talk about television or movies or music or sports or technology in an intelligent manner. But I can bore you with the latest book that’s captured my brain cells. The end of overeating: Taking control of the insatiable… Read More »
I would rather be lucky than good. Luckily, Richard Wiseman wrote a book telling me how to grow luckier. The author breaks luck down into four principles to consider when increasing your luck. I’ve explained his takeaways and interpreted with my own jive. Principle One: Maximize your chance opportunities There are three aspects to a person’s… Read More »
It’s been a light couple of months of reading for me for some reason. Maybe because I’m bad at life? Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson Benjamin Franklin is my sauce, my jam, my condiment of choice. I love the way he thinks and how he approached his life and I want to… Read More »
I know it seems like I’m talking to you, but I’m really just a narcissistic lunatic writing to herself. I’m trying to help my future self navigate. I write because that’s how I process the world. I’m reviewing and theorizing about what works and what doesn’t work for me, reporting my events and taking notes… Read More »
I’m just over eight months into my Year of the Body experiment, the project where I try to put my body’s interests first and foremost for a year. A few months into my research and, in particular, my exercising, I began to understand something called the muscle mind connection. And now that I do understand it, I… Read More »