Posts Tagged ‘joy’
How to be a Quitter
Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I have to tell you: I’m pretty awesome at quitting. Seriously. I’ve quit all kinds of things: jobs I’d fought for (contemporary art museum, art center), an engagement (not this one! Michael and I are very much getting married in two months!), sports teams (soccer, softball, [...]
Cultivating Joy
I have been actively cultivating love and joy in my life (more on that later, but Love Lists are a fantastic place to start), and holy smokes has this been successful! As I sit here at 12:30 in the morning, prepping the SAT and ACT after editing a slew of essays and teaching for 13 [...]
Love is in the Air
And no, I’m not talking about wedding stuff right now. (Though that’s all coming along just fine. We are super relaxed about the whole ordeal. The vows matter; the party’s a bonus.) No, I’m talking about Love Lists! Kris Carr posted a simple-but-inspiring blog earlier this week about ten things she loves, and I couldn’t [...]
July Blur
Teaching in Seoul in July is it’s own special brand of intense. We’re currently logging around 80 hour work weeks, and find our lives largely revolving around crazy class schedules. Unfortunately, this leaves little time or energy left over for anything else–running, yoga, blogging, heck, even eating. To help make this month just a little [...]
Rethinking Everything
One of the buildings at Hopkins, my high school. Hopkins fostered my love of words and learning, and each time I teach a literature class, I try to channel the brilliant teachers who taught me. An environment like Hop (or Hop itself) would be my dream teaching job. I want to teach high school English [...]
state of the union: yoga and me
Over the course of the past year, yoga and I have had some really awesome times. There was the daily practice with carefully chosen intentions back in December; this spring saw the one month yoga vs. Sarah Palin challenge; in April I met up with my favorite Holistic Health Junkie for an amazing 90-minute Anusara [...]
the proposal
(I also published this over at We’re Gettin’ Hitched!) Our love story didn’t start with the proposal–it started with our very first date, which I’m sure I’ll recount later–but I think it’s a great story, and a good place to start this website. As background, for those of you who don’t know, I was sure [...]
excitement abounds!
Oh boy–what a month it has been! You’ll have to excuse the radio silence on here lately. In the past five weeks I have: visited four different branches of family (Mike’s mom and dad, my parents, and my sister’s family) and a solid handful of friends across four states welcomed the most perfect nephew ever [...]
bundle of joy
I know it’s been quiet here on The View from There, but I promise I have a great excuse. This little guy came into my life early early Monday morning, and, along with his big sister, has been keeping me perfectly enchanted. Congratulations and thank you to my big sister and her wonderful husband for [...]
dream big. then dream bigger.
Oh man, what a great line. I first saw it on the Oh Joy! formspring page, and it’s been rolling around in my head ever since. This is, I believe, closely related to all my goal setting and vision board making, but I think it’s worthy of its own post. My friend A is a [...]