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The awesome outpouring of love and support after my post yesterday was encouraging, inspiring and touching. Thank you all. I won’t let either of us down. For now it’s one foot in front of the next, and mornings spent doing something strikingly similar to the below. My name is also Jessica, and I have those same pajamas. The only real different is the size of …
I haven’t posted here in over a week and a half, and I’m mad about it. I’m mad, and I’m disappointed, and I’m stressed. I’m mad because I made a personal commitment to writing twice a week, and I haven’t followed through lately. I’m disappointed because I know that as a writer/blogger you’re nothing without your audience, and you lose that audience the minute you …
…Great about it. I’ve been dreading this post – the one I’ve written every August 7th for the past five years – because I felt I hadn’t come to any conclusions about my own 2-9 mark. I didn’t feel particularly anxious or particularly calm. I didn’t have very many regrets about my 20s, and I know that those I do have are just a product …
Today I will do what is, perhaps, the most ridiculous ceremonial thing out of all the ridiculous ceremonial things I do (treat myself to a fancy hotel dirty martini every time I finish a script being a close second on the list). I will go to the Bank of America and take out $40 from the ATM. I will have the bank teller break that …
Last week I read two long articles about two young female “creators” who are the talk of the young-adult town – both in The New York Times. First there was this one – Emma Koenig’s So-Called Redacted Life – about Emma Koenig – the NYU bred blogger/Vampire Weekend little sister/latest 20-something with a TV deal. She is 24 and now lives in Los Angeles with …
I have aging on the brain. Since my post about turning 29, I’ve been thinking even more about turning 30. It’s happening to people everywhere I turn! Just last weekend I attended a spectacular bash to ring in a friend’s crossing to the old side. There was a photo booth, obviously intended to capture images of us looking the best we’ll ever look. Not that …
My friend Liz passed me this interesting article on elements of a healthy relationship. It came as a PDF, so I’ve pasted the full details below. The writer is Mark Sanders, who bears the letters LCSW, CADC next to his name. I think that makes him some sort of psychologist. I’ll look into it and get back to you. To me the most interesting point …
I realized on my recent flight from New York back to L.A. that every time I fly to or from New York or L.A. I have a mini freak out. I start to think about my life, generally. Then I think about how that life is tracking against my goals, specifically. And then I emotionally vomit on R for an hour or so about what …
–> I wrote the below post after attending one of my very first post-grad weddings. This was approximately four years ago. When I sat down to re-write the post from my much older, wiser life position I realized that I feel the EXACT same way. That said, I’ve added a few notes in bullet points below where issues and items have adjusted now that I’m …
I don’t usually write about my birthdays until my actual day of birth, but this year I’ve been thinking about the whole ordeal much more than at previous turns. I will be 29 on August 7th. That’s one month from last Saturday. I cannot remember if my little girl self had thoughts about what I’d be doing as a 29-year-old. I remember thinking I’d be …