Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them. – Mary Schmich I’ve been waiting and dreading And yet also dreaming of the day You would ask me this question. The day you would come to me for advice, Flushed and heady, sparkling eyes, Full of that somebody new. What will […]
Monthly Archive for November, 2009
a dedication to dedication
Posted in Challenge, dance, daughter, eight years old, November, Writing on Nov 18th, 2009
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your livingroom. -Mary Schmich Ladies and gentlemen… today I am taking a small break from our regularly scheduled programming… but it couldn’t be more pertinent, even if I had tried. I’d like to dedicate today’s post to a very dedicated little girl. Who […]
the egg convo
Posted in Challenge, getting older, memories, November, Writing on Nov 17th, 2009
Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own. – Mary Schmich Gawd remember how contorted we used to get in the back seat of your Cortina? Yeah…what was that colour called […]
nuptial half chances
Posted in Challenge, half chances, marriage, November, Writing on Nov 16th, 2009
Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else’s. – Mary Schmich […]
Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You’ll miss them when they’re gone. –Mary Schmich …drink all the cow juice you want but it wont stop the dickhead in front of you who slams on his brakes for no apparent reason which makes you slam on your brakes in order to avoid […]
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’t. – Mary Schmich Fek me Mary! I don’t like where this […]
I am intrigued by you. By your inspiration, your process, your thoughts. Where do you sit when you write? Do you pen it or tap tap tap? At home, The study, the office, a cosy corner café with wi-fi? Within procrastination city You are not In Real Life. Yet I know that you […]
my part in the great interview experiment…
Posted in Challenge, November, The Great Interview Experiment 2009, Writing on Nov 12th, 2009
Stretch- Mary Schmich Recently I signed up for devilishly-evil-literary-genius Neil Kramer’s world renown- The Great Interview Experiment . Immediately after I had joined the comment queue I sat wondering who would land on me (for me to interview) and who would land under me (to interview me). I waited, nervously looking up and looking down… feeling oddly trapped […]
Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements. – Mary Schmich Sitting underneath a basket of baby clothes I can’t bare to part with is a ruby red box, flat and rectangular. Inside are the papers that track a relationship from its infancy. And infants we were, Just eighteen and nineteen […]
a day of twitter-compliments
Posted in Challenge, compliments, insults, November, sincerity, Writing on Nov 10th, 2009
Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this tell me how. –Mary Schmich Insincere compliments really shit me. The suck-arsey ones that are hollow and verge on sarcastic make me doubt my self far more than a straight insult ever would. Sincere compliments on the other hand are crowns […]