Happy birthday, Tracy!
One of my favorite artists. I want to be her. If I can't be her, I want her arms. Happy 45th birthday today, Tracy Chapman!
Day Four, a lifetime.
Day Four. My lord. Is it only Day Four? It seems like a lifetime ago that I signed that pledge. If you are faltering, just remember that this is for you. This isn't for anyone else but you. It's not for me or your Aunt Estaleen or that cute man …
I need your help. For 60 seconds.
In November, 1979, I was living in Greensboro, North Carolina, when the Greensboro Massacre took place. Members of the KKK opened fire and killed five civilians on the streets of Greensboro. As readers of Life is a Verb know, I was dating a black man in Greensboro at the time–it …
Today is Day the Third!
It only takes 72 hours for doubt to set in, usually. "I've picked the wrong challenge." "I don't think I can do this for 37 days." "This is too hard." "I don't have time." "But I'm traveling!" "The planets are in retrograde!" "I have a headache!" As Caren wrote: "I'm …
Today is Day Two!
Day Two is still early enough in the process that we're excited, making lists, anticipating the changes that will happen, feeling all puffed up and proud of ourselves. "We can do it!" we tell ourselves. "We're self-actualized people way up here at the top of Maslow's hierarchy!" we croon. So …
Today is Day One!
I suck at consistency. I'm good at visions. Big pictures. Desires. The plot to save the world. Beginnings. I suck at consistency. Did I mention that already? Keeping it going. Finishing. I'm especially lousy at it when it is something I have promised myself. Not you, but myself. So this …
If today is Day Zero, then tomorrow must be … Day One!
Let's do something consistently for 37 days just to see if it changes our lives. Something small. Doable. Actionable. Recognizable. Every single day for 37 days. Tomorrow we begin. What will you do? [image from here]
Feel happy about your creamer
Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can climb. There is no terrain you cannot overcome. -Irisa Hail My Amy McCracken Angel (AMA) has struck again. In my email inbox this morning, I found this from her: The funniest thing happened to me at the grocery store …
Abandon numbers
Here’s the problem I have with numbers. They’re made up. And yet we invest such significance in them. They tell us whether something is worth doing, whether we should abandon an idea, how long we should try, whether we are worthy or fat or important. Or not. They are everywhere. …
Could you change your life in just 37 days?
The compelling question behind my writing on this blog — "What would I be doing today if I only had 37 days to live?" – came from experiencing the end of a life in just 37 short fleeting awkward painful glorious remarkable difficult scary wrenching days. In addition to the …
