A few months ago I asked my mom how it was that I CLEP’d out of a year of college. I’ve talked to her about this before so I’m not sure why I did again, but her response was interesting nonetheless.
“Why Jaimie… you do have a heart.”
I heard statements like that early on in life and I always shrugged it off, laughed, because I was quite proud of the implication that I usually looked decisive and cool. But…
Yesterday I was making chocolate chip cookies and used some of my homemade vanilla extract. I have two bottles of it, one with a nice printed label and one without. I was supposed to give the nice printed label bottle away for a Christmas gift, but the person who ended…
Earlier today a thought popped into my head, out of nowhere, as thoughts sometimes do. It was, “Huh, remember how much you loved Till We Have Faces? When’s the last time you thought of that stupid book.” The thought was…
When the anxiety starts to come over you, it’s no good. You know your brain is going to have to do a lot of work for a long time. You know time itself is going to feel longer, compounding the task.
Then you sit down to write a quick something about anxiety — “do it right now, while…