recommendations
books
Feeling Sorry For Celia, J. Moriarty
My Most Excellent Year, S. Kluger
Ella Enchanted, G.C. Levine
Margaux with an X, Ron Koertge
Finding Cassie Crazy, J. Moriarty
How They Met, D. Levithan
Maniac Magee, J. Spinelli
How We Were, M. Hahn
This Is How It Always Is, L. Frankel
Why Not Me, M. Kaling
The Hilarious World of Depression, J. Moe
Looking for Alaska, J. Green
Dreaming of Amelia, J. Moriarty
television
Schitt's Creek
Boy Meets World
Family Guy
The Good Place
The Mentalist
Merlin
One Day at a Time (Netflix)
The Mindy Project
Elementary
Phineus & Ferb
Malcolm in the Middle
Happy Endings
Modern Family
Parks & Recreation
movies
Mary Poppins
50/50
Coco
Good Will Hunting
Penelope
Shop Around the Corner
Pretty Woman
The Princess Bride
Meet the Robinsons
Harvey
Ocean's Eleven
Matilda
Bend it like Beckham
Eloise at the Plaza
try to
–––but be gentle when you can't
floss
make your bed every morning
take pictures
go to the library
read + write every day
make jokes that don't hurt people's feelings
drink lots of water
eat breakfast food for dinner
write thank you cards
do laundry somewhat regularly
people who said things
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
Ida B. Wells
We are reading the story of our lives
As though we were in it,
As though we had written it.
Mark Strand
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
Roald Dahl
I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can always fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page.
Ron Koertge
Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
Shel Silverstein
Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.
Jimmy Stewart
The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.