One Day Past Thirty-Five
Celebrations. I’ve decided I’m going to have them as often and as self indulgently as I can. I’m thirty-five, not dead!
The Thirty Diaries
Cruise Control And The New ‘Joy’stick
I live a charmed life. I stumbled onto something I loved doing and that, coincidentally I was also good at. It happened late enough that I had had enough time to pick up an education and a world view so I wouldn’t grow up into a unidimensional adult. And it…
Unimpressive Me
I’m starting to feel unimpressive in most social situations these days. Unimpressive seems inappropriate. I’m not allowed to underwhelm
Why My Life Really Began At Thirty
I started ‘The Thirty Diaries’ a month before I hit 30. Now, six months from my 35th birthday, I do a mid-way check.
On Being Thirty-Four: Then & Now
I wonder if being thirty-four has changed in the last three decades.
Love Is Such An Effort These Days
miss how easy it used to be to fall in love. I miss its effortlessness. I miss not even knowing that it could be an effort.
The Grey of Thirty-Four
I’m hitting the unremarkable age of thirty-four. Unremarkable, not unimportant.
It’s Not Always Jerry Maguire, Just So You Know
I was watching the first 20 minutes or so of ‘Jerry Maguire’ on TV and it made me feel like writing. Stories like that always do, don’t they? Inspirational ones about people who do something different, face challenges and then overcome them. This was yesterday. The minute I turned the…
Love, Learn, Live
You never stop growing. Never stop marveling at how little you knew last year or ten years ago. I wonder if it’s just me or everyone feels this way sometimes. Like I’m so different now than I was a few years ago, if I went back in a time machine,…
I Miss
I miss my anonymity. I miss the charm of, “So who is Ideasmith really?” I miss the lightness of being unknown.