Maybe There Will Be Cupcakes

Ginny Bartolone's Blog of Many Years

Month: September 2014

  • A Fabulous Book for the First Day of Fall

    Today I would like to tip my hat to Lodro Rinzler, the author of several books on how to be a modern Buddhist, or rather, how to live compassionately nowadays based on the teachings of the Buddha. I specify this because he’s wonderful at explaining that you don’t need to buy into everything about Buddhism…

  • Blog Makeover

    I came home sick yesterday and it looks like I have another day in bed ahead of me.  As someone who is terrible at just being sick and shutting off, I have found something productive to do that makes me, and my cat nurses, happy. Anyway, I gave my blog a makeover!  My hope was…

  • The Best Laid Wedding (and life) Plans

    Here is a message to all those about to get married, thinking about getting married, and those whose wedding is long past.  It is also a message I suppose to anyone looking forward to anything, which I would hope, is everyone who has stumbled upon this blog. I have often been accused of being a…

  • If you build it, they will….read your blog?

    A lovely idea launched me into writing this morning, and perhaps it will help you as well.  My friend Christina has been writing a lovely blog containing a thank you note a day to different things in her life: people, organizations, inanimate objects.  And this morning, she received a thank you note in return from one…