In striving to experience my inner hippie, I'm going to start doing something fun, silly, uncharacteristic or unexpected every day. My control-freak tendencies will have to hold on for the ride!
GROUP RESOLUTION Do something uncharacteristic every day
SECRETS OF ADULTHOOD
No one has to give you permission to have fun or act silly. After all you are 36 years old--you make your own decisions.
ONE-SENTENCE JOURNAL From: Ezra's words
While hugging me last week, Ezra said, "I love my family"
ONE-SENTENCE JOURNAL From: Ezra's words
Ezra misinterpreted my word "annoying" as having "wings", and let me know that he had arms, legs, etc., but no wings!
ONE-SENTENCE JOURNAL From: Ezra's words
During his first theater-viewed movie, The Princess and the Frog, Ezra said, "This movie is scary...my belly button is shaking!"
LISTS Books to read
- Lisa See's Shanghai Girls
- Sarah Napthali's Buddhism for Mothers: A Calm Approach to Caring for Yourself and Your Children
- Lisa See's Peony in Love
- The Language of Threads by Gail Tsukiyama
- Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel by Amy King
- Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860 by Ann B. Shteir
- Women and Plants: Gender Relations in Biodiversity Management and Conservation edited by Patricia L. Howard
- Good Observers of Nature: American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820-1885 by Tina Gianquitto
- Women in the Field: America's Pioneering Women Naturalists by Marcia Myers Bonta

