Me, too. Of course, the older I get, the bigger the break needs to be for me to be impressed by it. When I was first starting out, I just wanted someone – anyone! – to publish an essay or a story that I’d written. Then I wanted someone to publish my book. Then my next book. Then…
Month: March 2009
Things that make me smile
Received this notice in my inbox: “Dalai Lama (OHHDLInfo) is now following your updates on Twitter.” I realize this is only because I’m following him, not because he’s hoping to gain insight from my tweets, but still, it makes me smile. And if you’d like to follow me, I’ll follow you: www.twitter.com/JenniferLawler
Why We Should Stop Being So Judgmental
As a woman of sense and discernment – that is, I am highly opinionated and not afraid of sharing my opinions with anyone who’ll hold still long enough to listen – I sometimes find myself moving from the “I know what I like and I’m voting for it” democracy to the “Everyone should like what…
Too many choices
The other day I was at the grocery store trying to buy some salad dressing. You’d think this would be a fairly straightforward task: pick the type of dressing (ranch, Italian) and the brand (Kraft, Newman’s Own) and put it in your cart. But as I stood there staring at the vast array of possibilities…
Compiling a 100 choices list
Here’s an example of the “100 Choices” list I mentioned in my last post. The question I used to get things started was, How can I make money this year? (I did in fact leave off the illegal/immoral possibilities, such as selling crack cocaine from my living room): query my favorite magazine editors query magazine…
About the 100 choices list
When you’re trying to solve a problem, you have to ask the right question. For the 100 choices list I posted yesterday, I began by thinking about how all of us could probably use a few extra bucks about now. I posed the problem this way: How can I make money this year as a…