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Is Being a Completionist Fun?
I am a completionist. I derive a lot of pleasure from checking all the boxes. Cherry-picking podcast episodes isn’t for me. I go back to episode one and listen to the entire back catalog in order. You have 500 episodes and 25 of them are about the pandemic? Sign me up. You wrote a book…
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Can Mother’s Day Be Fun?
Breakfast is the best meal of the day. I would eat breakfast food at every meal (and occasionally do). Of course, on special days, I want a special breakfast. There should be sugar. There should be carbs. I want something Buddy the Elf would whip up for Jovie. So there I was, May of 2020,…
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Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Mondays
It will come as no surprise that Gilmore Girls is my favorite television show. Sure, it’s cliché, but Rory was a year older than I was and seemed like the perfect role model for my Enneagram One self. I was on track to be valedictorian and dreamed of attending not Harvard but “the Harvard of…
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Weekend Fun Recap – May 3-5
I got to have some special fun this weekend thanks to a sweet mom who has a daughter in my 8-year-old’s grade. She hosted a beautiful tea party for the moms and daughters, and it was such a treat! I enjoyed getting to know some of the moms better, watching my daughter jump on a…
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What Is Fun?
Webster’s dictionary defines fun as… Ok, no. We’re not doing that. (Though I do love definitions, and I do have an English degree.) When I was trying desperately to achieve a perfect SAT score, I would write down any unfamiliar word I encountered to look up later. This practice served me well. I did, in…
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What Is an Enneagram One?
At this point, you’ve likely heard of the Enneagram, a personality framework with nine types. Each type relates to some of the other types in the form of wings and arrows. I’m a Type 1, which The Enneagram Institute describes as “conscientious and ethical, with a strong sense of right and wrong. They are teachers,…
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The Journey Begins
I am not exactly…fun. I love a spreadsheet. A to-do list. An Oxford comma in the right place. But fun? Seems a little irresponsible. As an Enneagram One, I tend to be a black-and-white thinker. My categories are right and wrong. And fun doesn’t seem to fit well in either bucket. It’s ok once in…