I was leaving for a five-day trip and it was going to be a busy one. Sneakers packed for early morning walks, heels packed for evenings, and comfy flats for everything in between. If my ass was going to be touching a surface for more than a second it was going to be on a […]
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Not Your Average New Year’s Resolutions
This is not going to be one of those blog posts where I declare that by Spring 2016 I’m going to look like Christie Brinkley, who by the way, what the hell? I mean, you can see signs that she’s not 25 anymore, but you have to look through a Helium Ion Microscope to do […]
Resolution 2013: Get Happy Via Charts and Lists
I am not a fan of self-help books. I can be walking through a book store, feeling really good about life because of all the books that are in the world, fighting off a slight panic that I may not have time to read all of them, but still very positive about things in […]
Book Store Musings
I spent a glorious two hours in Books-A-Million, my new favorite Florida book store, this week. It was a good two hours to be Diane. For Mother’s Day, my kids gave me a book store gift card, so it was with zero guilt that I bought three books – two that weren’t even on sale, […]
Every Book (Except the Crappy Ones) in Its Place
I’m in Week Four of our move, the highlight of which is putting books on shelves. It’s a good day to be Diane when you get to spend all Friday and most of Saturday putting away books. Don’t laugh. It could be worse. I could be putting away tools in the garage or trying […]