I just found out very recently that not everyone has an internal monologue, and I am still reeling… An article (or perhaps a tweet, I can’t find the original source) a week or two ago brought to the internet’s attention that some people have an “inner voice” and other people are strange, alien savages who, […]
The week in review: 2/2/20-2/8/20
We live in exciting times… The past 7 days have seen another scandalous Superbowl Halftime Show, the Great Iowa Caucus Counting Debacle of 2020, a prediction for an early Spring by the world’s favorite weather-casting rodent, and a SOTU address by the world’s least favorite rodent. Here’s the highlight reel: And somewhere in there, […]
Back to Reality
My husband and I just returned home last week from a trip to Los Angeles. Its been one week today. One very loooong week. It was a fantastically awesome time in LA and ever since we got back I keep asking myself why we live where the air hurts our face…why can’t we live someplace […]
Ooops.
I apologize for my extended leave of absence… They say life is what happens when you are busy making other plans, and life got in the way these past few years. Without going into all the gory details (I’m saving THAT for the award-winning miniseries I’m going to write someday) let’s just say it […]
Why I write…and why I don’t
My extended absence from posting regularly has created a strange and urgent compulsion to explain myself regarding my recent neglect. I’m chalking it up to a deeply-ingrained sense of failure from childhood that I’m not living up to some ridiculously high standards I imposed on myself. Or something to that effect. I write because I […]
Still Not Dead Yet
Why, hello! What an embarrassment I’ve been to the blogging community. My apologies, folks. This summer went by so fast and was so busy I barely had time for basic bodily functions let alone the time to write about them. So many new developments and more than one intervention took place in the short space […]
The Art of Feeling Gratitude
This is a topic I’ve spent a lot of energy thinking about in recent times. What started it all was a rather stressful year (planning a wedding while starting a new job = complexity! stress! %$&@!) and the realization a while into it that my tendency to stress was actually beginning to take a very physical […]
On nothing.
What a dismal week this had been. Impotent, pointless, and inconsequential. But its done now. That’s the silver lining. And now I have a whole weekend ahead of me with no one but myself to answer to. I may “Enjoy Troy,” wine and dine myself, do something productive around the apartment. The world is my oyster. Its been […]
Illium fuit, Troja est
I love my hometown. It wasn’t always that way. There was a time when I used to joke to people that Troy, NY was my Bedford Falls…I was born and raised there, and when I became of an age where I could theoretically choose to quit town and boldly go where no Mandy had gone […]
Manic Mandy or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Winter
What a long, cold Winter this has been. Sometime in December the temperature dropped below freezing and it has stayed there ever since. You would think that my stout, hardy Slavic genes would buffer me in some way for this–but the force has never been strong with me here. I have never been good with […]
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