Dear Universe, I got an email the other day with the link to this article. In case you don’t feel like reading the whole thing, I’ll summarize. A young woman posted a photo of a bathroom stall at her university. In the stall, women had previously left heartbreaking messages of tragedies in their lives. One had written about being raped, …
Buckets and Buckets
Dear Universe, Turns out, Bucket Lists aren’t just for the things you want to do before you well, kick the bucket. After writing my last post, I did some more “research.” (Thank you Pinterest). Basically I discovered you can make a Bucket List for just about anything you feel like. Going to Florida for vacation? Why not the Vacation Bucket …
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Dear Universe, It’s hard for me to believe, but I started this blog a year ago. I had the idea for some time before it actually came to be. And then last Thanksgiving I shared with my brother that at some point I wanted to try and start this—maybe even months from then. After all, I told him, I wasn’t …
Judgement Free
Dear Universe, I finally got a chance to get back to the gym after a two week hiatus—not planned. It felt nice to make some time to do that. For the past couple of years my gym of choice has been Planet Fitness because it’s convenient and affordable. Years ago I used to belong to one of those fancy gyms …
Joy to the World
Dear Universe, It’s that time of year. The sun is setting earlier. The first snow fell in the northeast. The winter drinks have returned to Starbucks. I feel like it was only days ago that I noticed the fall drinks were here. Now I like the winter drinks, I do—so I am not necessarily sad about this development. But the …
Boston Book Festival
Dear Universe, For the past three years it’s been a tradition that my brother and I head up to the Boston Book Festival. Each year we check out the free events, grab lunch, bump into friends and usually end up with some new books—and if we’re lucky we sometimes meet the author’s face to face. Those moments are always memorable. …
Express Yourself
Dear Universe, I talk… a lot. I’m a chatter, a gabber, a socializer, a silence breaker… So when I got an email from my friend with the link to an article, “40 Things to Say Before You Die,” with her subject heading, “absolutely the best thing I’ve read, ever,” I had to read on. What were these 40 things and …
It Moves You
Dear Universe, For the past couple of weeks I keep seeing the same billboard off the highway as I crawl through traffic. It’s for a car—don’t ask me which one—and the slogan reads, “It moves you.” I’m always struck by the line. Every time I read it I wonder: what is it that really moves me? Not in the physical …