Perpetually Megnificent

  • Baseball Practice

    Things I have time to do when I forget to bring my homework to baseball practice: Log in to my blog for the first time in years Write a blog post for the first time in years Respond to people I’ve been ignoring for the past ten days Try to pay tuition and fail, remembering…

  • The Summer Things

    I have all the goals. I can’t help myself. The year goals, the month goals, the week goals, the day goals. And always, always, always the summer goals. Summer has always felt like a time of doing as well as a time of not-doing. How these two coexist in my mind, I couldn’t say. The…

  • The Problem with Fiction Friday

    Friday is fiction day. It’s a gift. To myself. You made it through one more week. Bury yourself in fiction. This is in line with one of my 2017 things: read more fiction than non-fiction. I’m failing, by the way. I’m knee deep in all sorts of non-fiction and not so knee deep in all…

  • Why I have All the Goals

    I’ve been contemplating my goal making. Around the new year a bunch of people start talking resolutions, how to successfully make and keep goals, and the best approach. Last year my list of 2016 things had nearly 70 items. That list was incomplete. I had my goals I didn’t put on that list but that…

  • What I did in 2016

    Saw the giant redwoods! Life-long dream: check. Now I need to find a new dream . . . As if that will ever be a problem in my life. (my life!) Felt immensely poor. Bought 1 (yes, one!) bottle of nail polish. I rock my own socks off. Started taking piano lessons. Quit taking piano…

  • 2016 in Books

    37 books, a paltry offering. When 2016 started I told myself that reading wasn’t important. It would happen when it happened but mostly I had other things to concern myself with. I stayed true to the things that were important. Reading, unfortunately wasn’t one of them. 16 novels. 9 self-help. 2 new favorite writers. 1…