Intention for Today

I spend a lot of days drifting from one task to the next and end up feeling like I didn’t do much of anything.  Tuesdays are my worst – at work, we call them “Terrible Tuesdays” because you’re lacking that Monday spark and motivation, yet the weekend is nowhere in sight.  (Today’s not quite as [...]

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Discovery’s Final Flight

The end of the U.S. space shuttle program has been big news for awhile.  Many people – myself included – are sad to see these incredibly special shuttles forever grounded.  I suppose it was inevitable – that one day the shuttles would go from being working machines to pieces of American history… and while I’m [...]

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In Honor of Easter and National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month, and yesterday was Easter Sunday; those two facts are reason enough for me to share a poem with you today.  Here’s another piece I love, by my all-time favorite poet. i am a little church(no great cathedral) far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities -i do not worry [...]

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Some Thoughts On QUIET

I’ve been looking forward to reading Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking since it was released.  But I had to wait awhile, because there was a looooooong holds queue at the library.  Apparently there are a lot of introverts in Fairfax County, and we all have library cards. It took [...]

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Creative Consumption

Sometimes it seems like all we do is buy and consume, buy and consume.  We burn gas on our long, stressful commutes.  Pick up takeout for lunch and bolt it down at our desks while we stare at our preferred news outlet’s website.  Grab a pizza on the way home – more food that we [...]

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Sister Lit

Last month I read The Weird Sisters, a debut novel by Eleanor Brown.  In many ways, it followed a formula.  Sisters butt heads but love each other at the same time.  (Well, to be honest, the Andreas sisters of The Weird Sisters did more head-butting… metaphorical, of course… than loving.  But there was some loving.)  [...]

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Staying Warm

I was a little bit surprised by my first winter in D.C.  I moved down here because I thought it would be warm.  And it is – most of the year.  I can run outside and hubby can grill almost all year ’round.  But winter still exists here.  We get our occasional Snowmaggeddons that make [...]

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This Week I’m Loving…

~My wooden “read” sign from William Dohman, available here.  I keep it in the seating alcove in my bedroom, and it makes me smile every time I look up from my book to see it sitting there on my shelf, reminding me of my favorite hobby (like I could ever forget). ~Cruising TripAdvisor.  An idea [...]

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Racing Myself

I’m not a fast runner.  I’ll never win a race.  Not even my age group.  Not even close.  And when I was younger, if you told me that I would have been signing up for road races for FUN, I’d have laughed. in. your. face.  I was the kid who finished last in the Great [...]

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Said at Starbucks

Jaclyn: “Hello!” Starbucks employee: “Hot tea?” Jaclyn: “Wow.  Yes, please!” Starbucks employee: “Refresh?” Jaclyn: “Actually, Awake, please.” Starbucks employee: “Where do you work?” {Starbucks employee #2 correctly names client I’m working for.} Jaclyn: “I’m here a lot, huh?” (Let it be noted for the record that I’m more of an indie coffeehouse girl.  But at [...]

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