Paper wisdom

My fortune cookie message today:The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Yep. I’ve always been a big fan of that one.

Yes, Virginia

From Virginia Woolf, An Inner Life by Julia Briggs:” … A Room [of One’s Own] was drafted in a single month (March 1929), and then heavily revised: ‘It made itself up & forced itself upon me … as I lay in bed after Berlin … at...

Hail Olympia

A weathered, creased print of Manet’s Olympia has lived on my bedroom wall for nearly eight years. I found her in an antique store in Hoboken called Fat Cat which no longer exists. I fell in love with her immediately and bought her for under $20, she in her...

Job well done

I have been working so hard on a grant application this month that I think I should reward myself somehow. It’s what I would tell my life coaching clients to do. Hmmmmmm.A massage?A new book?A dinner splurge?Shoes?Ah, the possibilities …