Somehow I completely missed the one-year anniversary of this blog on June 12th! It’s been fun to go back and see how much my thoughts have changed or stayed the same and, most exciting, how the very act of blogging has improved my writing skills. To celebrate, I’m sharing below what I wrote one year …
“[I]ntroverts are people who find other people tiring” ~ Jonathan Rauch A StumbleUpon suggestion this morning led to me to a very good list of Top Ten Myths About Introverts, my favorite being this: Myth #5 – Introverts don’t like to go out in public. Nonsense. Introverts just don’t like to go out in public …
“[I]ronically, the woman who appears well adapted may be the one who has simply become most comfortable being governed by her fears, while the ‘neurotic’ one is still gamely struggling to reach fearlessness.” ~ Becoming Fearless, Arianna Huffington Serendipity. My favorite word of all time. It happened a couple of times this week. First, on …
Could you live without the internet for a week? For a month? That’s the prompt for today’s WordPress Daily Post challenge. Could I? Absolutely. More than ever, I’m grateful that my teaching job precludes being connected, at least during class time (and when I’m not logged on in order to show something online). I don’t …
[tweetmeme source=”lisa_rivero” style=”compact” only_single=false] The WordPress Daily Post Challenge offers ideas each day for what to write about, and while I haven’t been using them regularly, one from a few days ago has been nagging me: What’s the most important thing you’re putting off? And why haven’t you done it yet? What do you need …