Some of life’s best-laid plans are the ones we don’t plan at all. My best days have involved deviating from my original itinerary and doing something completely spontaneous. With a city as vast and exhilarating as New York, it’s easy to go through the motions of scheduling your whole life out in advance just so […]
The Backup Plan
Detoxing: Why It’s Good for the Soul
Detox–it’s a word that carries so much meaning and importance, although the definition varies for each of us. For example, while the recent weather in New York has been “three-days-of-70-degrees-followed-by-a-weekend-of-rain-and-low-50s” deplorable, I’ve gotta give it up to Mother Nature for this break in blogging. It’s allowed me to hit the “reset” button and refocus my time […]
Poem of the Week #3
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Poem of the Week #2
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Just Breathe.
Source I’ve always been curious about mediation as a way to alleviate stress, but I never actually followed through with my desire to practice it regularly. I recently purchased Sit Like a Buddha: A Pocket Guide to Meditation by Lodro Rinzler because I thought if I bought a book about mediation, I would actually follow through […]
Poem for Graph Paper
Source Five summers ago, I had the privilege of attending Brown University’s Summer@Brown program, having taken a creative writing workshop with an emphasis in poetry. The workshop challenged my thinking in unimaginable ways, and it opened up a creative side of me I didn’t think I had. Once I started college, my desire to write […]
