A few weeks ago my mom came to town to celebrate my 28th birthday. We ate and chatted a lot, got our nails done, and of course made a stop at Barnes and Noble. I got some great presents, most of which — surprise! — are of the paper-and-ink variety. Before I get to the…
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Sitting on My Nightstand
I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump recently. There’s lots of reasons why, but it all falls under the “needing to get out of my head” category. I want to go to the movies and binge-watch Netflix, play video games with Best Friend, and maybe invite a few friends over; for me this…
“If you take a book with you on a journey…an odd thing happens.”
I’ve kept a commonplace book for over a decade, occasionally adding in snippets, quotes, or sayings that appeal to me. After adding a fresh piece of advice the other day (“Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will.”) I glanced back through other recent entries and landed on this…
Who Says Work Reading Has to be Boring?
New responsibilities at work mean that I am once again feeling out of my comfort zone, so once again I have turned to books for assistance and comfort. These three books have been my constant companions these last few weeks. The Subversive Copy Editor Author Carol Fisher Saller is a senior manuscript editor at the…
How Generalized Anxiety Disorder Makes Me a Better Person
Generalized anxiety disorder is a psychological disorder characterized by “excessive or disproportionate anxiety about several aspects of life, such as work, social relationships, or financial matters.” It’s not generally diagnosed as anything other than typical worrying until an individual has experienced extreme worrying every day for at least six months. I’m somewhere around year 20….