Entries from March 2008
How Not to Get a Date: Just Say No
March 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Note to self: When a good looking and interesting guy asks you for a beer, say YES!
I decided to try skiing, so yesterday I did! It was so fun.
Tags: Emotional Freedom · Love and Sex · Movies Worth Watching · Relationships
The Nanny Diaries: A Thoroughly Entertaining Romp through Manhattan
March 17th, 2008 · No Comments
I was thoroughly entertained listening to Kathe Mazur’s reading of The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.
The Nanny Diaries does what a good book ought, transport the reader—listener—to a different world. In this case, it’s upper-class Manhattan where the rich are clueless.
Tags: Literary Fiction
Pesky Prepositions and Anonymous Grammar Nazis
March 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Last night at a party I had a fun little conversation with Heidi Kearsley, a successful real estate agent with Wells&Bennett in Oakland California. Heidi recently sent out postcards, the kind agents send out to drum up business.
Tags: Advice · Emotional Freedom · Non Fiction · Social Psychology
And It Was Enough: Mrs Dalloway Makes it though The Hours
March 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Last night I watched The Hours, a movie based on Michael Cunningham’s 2000 novel of the same name.
The Hours is a haunting psychodrama around the suicide of Virginia Woolf (played by Nicole Kidman) with the death theme running throughout.
Tags: Health and Happiness · Literary Fiction · Movies Worth Watching
Happiness Is an Outside Job: Unhappy at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
March 6th, 2008 · No Comments
I decided I needed to expand my horizons, so I paid $45 to go to Spirit Rock Meditation Center to hear Buddhist Sylvia Boorstein speak on happiness. Actually, she was selling her book Happiness Is an Inside Job.
Tags: Emotional Freedom · Non Fiction · Personal Success