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Ginny Bartolone's Blog of Many Years

Category: Life

  • Monday Ramblings on Loud Cars, Narcissism, and Into the Woods

    I was recently advised, and rightly so, to find a way to let off some steam for my acting’s sake.  And so here we go. My neighbor (who I assure you will never read this blog because he definitely can’t remember my name), has a habit of sitting in his car on warm afternoons and playing…

  • Motivational Posters and Funky Monday Mornings

    I’m having one of those mornings.  I feel like the day hasn’t actually started.  First of all, it’s super gray outside.  Maybe-you-should-just-go-hide-in-the-back-of-the-library-all-day type of gray.  Also, I’m currently out of projects with deadlines, and man do I love a good deadline.  The hardest thing about art-related careers is that no one forces you to work.  When…

  • xoJane Article Publication

    Happy Monday, everyone!  One of my articles was published on xoJane today.  I’m staying away from the comments section–clearly it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.  But this is a great exercise for me in learning to take the good with the bad as a writer.  As they say in teaching–if you reached one person, you…

  • The Native Navigator Launch Day!

    Put on your party hats, friends!  I have finally launched The Native Navigator! It is still very much a work in progress, but as I find my way, it would mean more than the world to me if you either followed the blog, followed me on Twitter at @NativeNavigator or Liked my Facebook page.  I…

  • Anatomy of a Weird Day

    This is going to be a bit of a weird post for me.  Then again, yesterday was a pretty weird day.  And I can’t really put my finger on why.  Nothing wild happened.  It was just odd–as in, something significant, however small, happened in each step of the afternoon.  So I’m going to write about it.…

  • For My Grandma, 1925-2014

    Today marks the two-year anniversary of losing my grandmother on my mom’s side, Doris Clifford.  I got the call after making it to the end of a hellish week, barely by the skin of my teeth.  I was helping plan a massive gala in NYC and nearly collapsed by the end of the evening.  We…

  • Confidence vs. Context: An Artist’s Dilemma

    When I was little, and acting came more easily to me, I was constantly told to make sure it “didn’t go to my head.” Because I was an anxious child, I immediately tucked this idea up on the shelf with other “Things to be Super Terrified Of,” and decided that being conceited was one of…

  • When Mainstream Advice Doesn’t Do It for You

    So for those who are tired of the superficial wanderlust mindset, I suggest we begin seeking a higher quality of advice, the same way we seek out reliable news sources. This is not to say that those motivational posters are not uplifting for someone else, but I am a little past these clichéd or purely…

  • Information Overload and the Tale of the Deadly Pear

    My pear tried to kill me this morning. I was driving to work and was, ironically, listening to a segment on NPR about their “Infomagical challenge”–all about removing distractions. Just as I rounded the corner into school, my pear, precariously placed on the middle console, leapt forward and rolled under my break pedal. Luckily, I…

  • Avoiding Negativity in the Groundhog Season

    A few mornings ago, I work up to an article on Elephant Journal about what is know as the Buddhist Dön season (vowel pronounced like “could”). In a nutshell, the ten days leading up to the Tibetan New Year (this year is February 9th) are believed to enhance our awareness of daily obstacles and provoke…