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We’ve been home from Disney for almost three weeks, and I’ve been reflecting on how our anticipating, experiencing, and remembering selves experience a trip. In general, my remembering self thinks about the trip more fondly than my anticipating and experiencing selves do. So one way to increase the fun of a vacation is to really
In my last post, I shared about how I view time as money—and budget it. We all have 168 hours per week to spend. I’ve personally found that after I set aside time for sleep, unexpected events, and transitions, I can “spend” about 98 hours per week. Because I have a general sense of how
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
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
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
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,
