*placeholder*Fall 2013
A Quiet Place
Breathe in, breathe out. Let the day just wash away. Let everything go And just breathe. Let your mind soar through the possibilities. Let everything be absorbed and released. Pause and just let everything exist. Light music. Tea in hand. Calm. An oasis from the world. A place where you can just be. Those places are so few and far between today. We create them – if we know how – Using little digital devices And closed eyes. And sometimes we can find the right place – A cafe, a tea shop, or other place […]
Tea: The Cure to Aid All Ills
In parts, this post is going to continue on some topics brought up by the Scotland post. However, I think it’s important to write this as its own thing, particularly since so much of this is not only personal, but also more about growing up a tea-lover in the United States than it is about traveling to Scotland. I experienced excitement yesterday at the prospect of one of the studios I teach for holding themed teas. Scones and tea and Nutcrackers. The studio owner had started an annual tea for a studio she used to teach […]
A Little Wild Beauty
A few weeks ago, in the height of dandelion season, I thought I saw a buttercup. No, I don’t mean a porcelain cup with the intention of being used for butter. I mean the bright cheery happy yellow flower. I was saddened when I realized that, no, it was just another dandelion. But it brought back memories of my sister and I running around the yard, picking the little shiny yellow flowers and holding them up to our chins. “Do you like butter?” we’d say as we did so. The myth seemed to always favor […]
Kitchen Experimentation
It’s fair to say that most of us, at some point in our lives, will have a low enough income that we have to scrape the bottom of our bank accounts to feed ourselves three meals a day. For most people that comes either during or directly after university. I have handily discovered what I have been calling “kitchen ingenuity” in my moments where I realize I’ve forgotten to buy breakfast foods (or even lunch foods, though this is less common). I also know that not eating breakfast is not healthy and usually leads to […]
Little Adventures
Sometimes, all we need in a day is to do something out of the ordinary. Something just to be out in the world. Every once in a while I get done with my plan for the day and think, “Geez, I just don’t want to go home quite yet.” So here I am, getting out and sitting at the waterfront. With my B&J. This post in and of itself is a little bit of an experiment. It’s my first time posting something from my phone. I don’t really anticipate doing this all that much, but […]
Today They Struck Home…
Bits feed through you slowly. You are hearing bits and pieces as they are happening – slower even because you’re a member of the public and not personally involved. There is only so much you can process, even then. The words, “Oh my God, there were two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon,” are not what you expect to interrupt your work day. How do you even begin to describe that feeling? The twin towers and the pentagon were one thing – a place I had been to but never really thought […]
Goal Checkpoint
I created a list of goals at the beginning of the year. Normally I don’t do checkpoints like this, but seeing as I felt a bunch of them had been completed, I figured I ought to really stop and go over them. Apparently with an audience. So, here we are. 1) I want to audition for a local production of something. I can act, I swear. I’ve just always been very hesitant to audition for these things. I did, in fact, audition for Oliver!, so this one is done. Fortunately, the goal didn’t say “Get in […]
Putting Yourself Out There
I have just spent my first two years out of college trying to figure out what I’m going to do with my life. And I’m pretty sure I’ve found it. So here comes the hard part. It’s something I haven’t just spent four years of college doing. I’ve decided, quite definitively (and more definitively than I have made any other decision in my life), that I want to be an actress. Film, television, theatre – I don’t really care. I am completely and totally in love with being someone else for a few hours every […]
Addicted Yet?
A lot of us are loath to admit that we might be addicted to something – especially when it’s something that is totally and completely legal, but seems to be interrupting every day life. Such is the way of the smart phone. About two weeks into dating, my boyfriend at the time decided my phone wasn’t good enough (I was, at that point, using a MyTouch as an experiment with my Dad. The MyTouch had a few issues but was an okay phone, and a complete upgrade from the phone that T-Mobile thought I had […]