Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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A thing Nia dance practice allows me is free-flowing thoughts. My body is moving to music. I’m following the trainer’s lead and tracking choreography. Meanwhile, my mind wanders. I have these pit stops at how my body feels (Wow! Great!), plans I’m looking forward to (Wine with Kristen tonight! Super!), stuff from the past (a…
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I don’t know why my brain trips me up with inertia. I want to do a thing; I know it’s a good useful thing to do. But I don’t wanna. Not right now. Didn’t want to go dance this morning. Don’t know why. Went anyway. And it was great, of course. Exactly what I needed.…
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Yesterday, with the hubris of someone who conceives a grand plan without considering what a pain in the butt it will be to accomplish, I announced I would try reading a French detective novel in French as a way to improve my very sketchy language skills. Here’s what that looks like. The paragraph below is…