When people ask me what this blog is about, I generally hem and haw and eventually say something along the lines of “um, self-improvement?” It is, as I wrote last year, a bit of an ongoing resolution machine, a place to share how I am challenging myself, and where I am growing. This will be [...]
Archive for December, 2011
The Person I Want to Be: Resolution Round-Up
Posted in General, tagged becoming, growing, new year, new years, resolution on December 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.”
Posted in General, tagged connection, TED, vulnerability on December 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is an amazing, surprisingly intimate, and funny TED talk about connection and vulnerability—and about the one thing that researcher Brene Brown found separated the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging, and the people who struggle for it. Watch it, watch it, watch it right now:
Immerse and Emerge: Revisiting the Mikvah
Posted in Jewish Journey, Writing, tagged blessings, divorce, mikvah, yom kippur on December 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A new year is approaching, and winter is settling in. As we prepare to jump into 2012, and think about what sort of resolutions we will be making, I can’t help but reflect on how the Jewish year began a few months ago, and the specific blessings I sent to myself then—while underwater in a [...]
