When I got on a crowded subway on a recent afternoon I was delighted to find a seat. It was only a 15-minute ride to New York City, but I was happy to save my energy for shopping with a friend.
I’m at the airport two hours early for my flight, reading a magazine at the gate. I occasionally look up to see the bustle around me, but mostly enjoy the unfettered time. Just moments before my flight is to take off I hear an announcement that they’ve switched the gate. I gather my stuff and run, but I can’t find that number. I must have heard it wrong. I run from gate to gate to gate.
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Last year my mother gave me a spatula for Christmas. A special long one that allows me to flip tilapia and other foods more easily. The year before it was a frying pan with a lid. I pretty much use that every day.
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Do you ever wonder what makes a video or story go viral? Even when it’s not racking up thousands of views, what is it about a particular item that has it appearing two or three times on your Facebook or Twitter feed?
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“Do you think it would be foolish if I quit my job and focused on reinventing myself?”
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After we’ve finished Thanksgiving dinner, my niece hands me a small plastic airplane and I simulate its flight through the air.
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It is my fervent hope that if asked what they are grateful for in their lives, most people could start rattling off a long, long list. It is those who are nodding their heads at the thought of this exercise that I’d most want to know. Unquestionably.
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I am in a nose-to-the-grindstone phase of life right now. You know, one of those periods where the idea of ‘Live Riveted’ conjures up an image of me happily moving my hands over my computer keyboard, laser focused on words becoming sentences and sentences becoming paragraphs and paragraphs becoming pages and pages becoming chapters.
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Every so often people in my life will talk about their love of hiking or ask me to go on a hike with them. I always laugh. Like, out loud at the preposterousness of the idea.
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