I almost threw this out, unseen. It was on the reverse side of a worksheet, the side that hadn't been set apart as being for something. One minute I am in rote Mom mode, flipping through, piling and preparing to dispense of the day's stack of first grader school papers, bundle readied for the garbage--and …
Paper Wish
Scrabbling around in my bedside table drawer, I found this card. This wish. It made my throat clench up to read it, in the weird way that wanting to cry and not giving into it rewards us with a bit more pain. A bit more reason to cry, actually. Sarah has been my friend since our …
Writing Out The Lyrics
When I was in high school, I used to spend hours with my headphones on, or in front of my boom box, starting and stopping songs so I could scrawl out the lyrics. Not surprisingly, the songs I'd choose to write out were ones I'd designated as particularly meaningful--they were songs I wanted to possess in …
Sorting Time
I count on the end of each year as my moment for self-reconciliation, my opportunity to think through the year gone by and decide what it all means. Me, the bookkeeper AND the books, settled in at an imagined table to see how I did this year, my life a one-woman business of sorts. And I …
Twitter is for Laughers
Hey Think Kit Day Three! You want a funny story from this year? How about NO! I have no funny stories to tell, or if I do have funny stories, my telling them here will sap them like kryptonite does Mr. Superman. Instead I give you this: MY FAVORITE PARODY/HUMOR TWITTER ACCOUNTS!!!!!!! If someone said, …
Memory and Change
Think Kit, Day Two! Still excited. Still blogging on not my computer. Today's prompt is straightforward: I am to tell you about a time this year that I changed my mind. Possible problem: I don't change my mind! (Not publicly. Not in a way I'd ever admit to. I'd find a way to back into …
#76submissions
Friends, hello! I feel like I'm sending out this post into the world from some strange, faraway place--your blogging foreign correspondent--and I don't know why I should even mention that, because every internet thing is more or less 'unstuck'--not really moored to anything but this blog and hey, you may only ever encounter just this …
Unwritten Letters
Think Kit by Smallbox continues throughout the year with a prompt-a-month setup, and I suggested the prompt chosen for February, so I better write it, yeah? Write a letter to someone whom you never got a chance to thank for the role they played in your life. What was it about that person that mattered …
I’m Looking Forward
It's the last day of Think Kit. Boo! I'm really sad it's over. Think Kit has not only challenged me to write daily, but it has also given me the opportunity to grapple with some complicated ideas and issues. In the end, Think Kit has been like a 31-step program for achieving a more thoughtful life. …
2014 Resolutions
Think Kit wants to know: What's one step you can take to support a goal you have for 2014? First of all, let's talk about a couple of my goals for the year, which I'll present here in the form of the ever-popular resolution. I resolve it! Resolution One: Participate in the #Read26Indy challenge and read …
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