Category — Microblog Mondays

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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After closing the book on a year where it felt like so many things were going wrong, I want to start this year by stating what has gone right so far. In my world: We all remembered to say “rabbit rabbit” at midnight so they were the first thing said in the new month of the new year.

How about for you? What has gone right so far?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Happy Christmas or Merry Christmas? I grew up hearing Merry Christmas, but Josh thinks that Happy Christmas sounds softer, like merry is a command (be merry) and happy is a hope (hope it’s a happy day). That may not be linguistically true, though it goes hand-in-hand with things like happy birthday, which is more about hoping the person is having a good day rather than commanding them to feel a certain way. (As in, I hope you had a happy birthday.) Happy or merry?

And how are you spending today?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Ann Friedman has a popular newsletter. While she has been off on maternity leave for the past few weeks, she is telling the story of her thoughts about pregnancy and parenthood with deep honesty. I have wondered how her child will feel in the future reading the essays, but in the here and now, they are a frank depiction of a person who doesn’t know how she feels about becoming a parent. It’s full of thought-provoking statements, such as, “Freedom, I think, is choosing the people you will be responsible for and to. This potential kid is a wild card. I’m choosing a type of responsibility, but not the actual person.”

She is currently on Part 5, so begin with Plot Twist.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I heard about an app this week where you meet people in your city for breakfast. The app explains, “Because dinner sounds like a date, and lunch sounds like a work meeting. Breakfast is usually just that — breakfast.” It’s just getting together with another human being and eating together. You can use the app once a day to match with someone in your city because breakfast happens once a day, and they add new cities any time they receive 151 profiles in the same area.

While leaving my home feels like a lot early in the morning, I would be totally into this if I were younger.

What do you think?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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You know how someone will say a fact like, “Nothing rhymes with orange,” and your brain immediately starts trying to find something that rhymes with orange? That’s how I felt reading these words: “Ultimately there will be as many last times as there were first times.” My brain immediately said, “No, there are things where there is no last time! Let me name them.” Except, you know, death. So there will be a last time to everything you begin.

Which is why this paragraph feels… mindset changing.

For ninety-nine percent of these last times, you will have no idea that that’s what it is. It will seem like another of the many middle times, with a lot more to come. If you knew it was the last-ever time you spoke to a certain person or did a certain activity, you’d probably make a point of appreciating it … Many last times are still a long way in the future, of course. The trouble is you don’t know which ones.

Go read the whole post.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.