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book review: The Fault in Our Stars

March 1, 2013 Book Reviews, confessions

Description: The #1 New York Times bestseller that Time Magazine called “damn near genius,”The Fault in Our Stars is the story of Hazel Lancaster and Augustus Waters, two Indianapolis teenagers who meet at a Cancer Kid Support Group. Review: This is one of those books that is impossible to describe in a pleasant way: “It’s a story about two kids with cancer…” Yeah. That’s uplifting. Well, this book isn’t exactly uplifting. But it is riveting. It is emotional. It is challenging. It is unreal. Green is a master wordsmith and I’m adding all of his books to my to-read pile. Having watched a friend go through cancer (and defeating it!) as a young girl, this...

thankful thursday: week nine

February 28, 2013 confessions, thankful thursdays

  How has another week gone by? It seems the busier I get, the more there is to be thankful for. 51. a mile-long to-do list that keeps me hopping 52. the opportunity to teach marketing to chiropractic students 53. small things, like basic transportation 54. ironic things, like me being the only one who’s Skype won’t work in the office, after I insisted my coworkers and I use Skype to communicate 55. determined dogs, and delinquent dogs {Bo has destroyed the gate we used to keep them sequestered while we are out of the house. It’s an iron gate too… How’d he manage that one?} Share a few of...

confessions: going with the flow

February 27, 2013 confessions

…sometimes things end up better than you expect. …all you can control is you. Don’t waste your energy on things that are outside your hold. …sometimes good ideas ought to be left to simmer before acting upon. …sometimes saying positive things will actually put you in a better mood.  


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confession: I’m running out of blogging steam

February 26, 2013 confessions

I knew it would happen when I committed myself to doing five blogs a week. This was meant to be a push for my writing discipline and an exercise in being more open online. But as I stare at the blank screen today, I’m just not sure what to even write. I have a whole notebook of ideas that sound brilliant when I jot them down, but then I look at them later and think, “What?” When blogger friends have posted on Facebook or Twitter: “I don’t know what to blog about.” I say, “Blog about not knowing what to blog about!” thinking that I’m clever. But yeah. Here I...

confession: dogged determination

February 25, 2013 confessions

Honey is a three-month-old puppy trapped in a four-year-old dog’s body. But in four years, her spunky nature and playfulness has never waned. Especially when it comes to her favorite toy, the lunge whip (long whip used in lunging horses in wide circles). I stole this idea from a website: tie a tennis ball to the end of the whip and swing it around in circles. This wears dogs out faster than anything else you can imagine. But Honey is obsessed. She doesn’t even care that the tennis ball is long gone. She would (and nearly has) chased this whip until she dies. Forget oxygen, forget shaky legs—she sees nothing...