Posts Categorized: Life’s a Butter Dream
Life’s a Butter Dream – Author M.J. Pullen blogs about body image, weight loss (and gain) (and loss again), fitness and struggling to stay healthy as a working mom. When my oldest son, Skywalker, was a toddler, he used to sing “Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily… life’s a butter dream.” And he’s right!
So one of our tasks for the upcoming holiday weekend is that MDH and I are planning to clean out some stuff we’ve had in storage since early in the year. We boxed up some clutter while our condo was on the market, and now it needs to come home so that we can save […]
… And we’re back. The blog has been on a hiatus for a month or so, partly because of my graduation and all the festivities surrounding it, and then because we took a trip to Ireland for nine days. It was my first time crossing the Atlantic since I backpacked through Europe 10 years ago […]
One thing I really love about gmail, aside from its other endlessly useful features, is the little rotating headline thingy — I’m sure the folks at google have an actual, technical name for it — above the inbox, which changes every time I check my mail. At first, I barely noticed its existence. And even […]
…but don’t forget to set the alarm. Okay, it’s a little trite. I’ll admit it. You read, “Dare to Dream,” in the title, and immediately you get some psuedo-inspiring, extra-annoying WhitneyBetteMariah song creeping into your awareness, complete with violins and some vague, drippy chorus. You see the poster image of the hang-glider or the astronaut […]
It would be impossible to write genuinely this week without first mentioning Sean. So I won’t even try. Sean Costello, a close family friend of ours and an unparalleled blues guitarist, died suddenly last week, to the dismay of all of us who knew him, and many who did not. This amazing young man, who […]
Spring is here and, in my hometown of Atlanta, love is — quite literally — in the air. The trees and shrubs are doing their best to reproduce despite the recent drought; and as a result the entire metro area is covered in a soft, yellow-green carpet of pollen — so thick and pervasive it’s […]
So, for today’s entry, I decided to operationalize the suggestions I made in yesterday’s blog about perfectionism… Meaning, what good is it to talk about having the courage to be imperfect but not say how? So here are 10 ways to fully enjoy being an imperfect human being: Next time you are going to a […]
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. ~Carl Schurz Anything worth doing is worth doing well. I don’t know who said this originally, but […]
