Halfway closer to dead?!?! I introduce to you Katie Goodman (@katiegoodman). Comic. Entertainer. Singer. Midlife badass. I think being in your late-40’s makes you a badass. Why? Cuz you’ve gotten over some stuff, you’ve let go of some stuff, and you’ve learned some stuff. You know what your politics are. You know how to demand a raise without getting defensive. You know you might not ever get a ...
Alive Now
"I don't want a never ending life I just want to be alive while I'm here" (Source: "Spirits" by THE STRUMBELLAS) ...
Publication Time
My weird-wacky-wonderful manuscript is no longer a manuscript. A far-flung and diverse mix of beta testers have generously offered me "barometer reads", and I’ve wrapped up revisions. A deft designer has alchemized the bits and pieces into a tidy book. And shortly the whole adventure will be pressed into paper. It's publication time. At last it's time to send this wayward child out into the ...
Nothing is Impossible
"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible." ~ Deepak Chopra Good morning, friend. I write to you from the downhill side of an amazing week. I'm not coasting, exactly, but it's fair to say that I'm drafting, pulled forward euphorically and almost effortlessly by an achievement that I'm eager to share and celebrate. An achievement that originally felt daunting; an ...
Rabbit, Rabbit
The start of a new day and a new month and a new year. I'd say that today is ripe with potential. Ready for harvest... Welcome to January. It's nice to think about ripening and harvesting in the middle of winter, even if we must summon the metaphor from the tumescent days of September. It's time to start fresh once again. Rabbit, rabbit! ...
Precocious Midlife Crisis
"Everybody should have a midlife crisis! I mean, why wouldn’t you have a midlife crisis? My first midlife crisis was when I was like nine-and-a-half." ~ Jay Wexler (Source: The Boston Globe) I snipped this from an interview with Jay Wexler about his novel, Tuttle in the Balance. His lighthearted riff on midlife crises is woven into a dismissive response to a suggestion that Ed Tuttle, his law ...