Maybe There Will Be Cupcakes

Ginny Bartolone's Blog of Many Years

Category: Life

  • How I Turned My Mornings Around

    Up until last December, my mornings were pretty predictable. My alarm went off 45 minutes before I left for work, I hit the snooze button twice, jolted awake, and then stared horrified at the clock before sprinting to the shower. Next, I struggled for the remaining 15 minutes or so to find an outfit that…

  • The Three Voices of Anxiety

    A few years back, I had a very kind coworker surprisingly blurt out that he thought anxiety was made up. It was pretty shocking, since this person was a great listener and all around pretty understanding guy. But in his experience, he simply “didn’t understand why people did it to themselves.” It got me thinking.…

  • September Goals and a Note on Surprising Yourself

    As we say goodbye to the last mile marker of summer, there is a lot to look forward to as things start to cool down an the world fills with pie and pumpkin flavored everything.  I’ve found that without the start of a school year, it’s important for me to set goals, or even New Years Eve-esque resolutions…

  • Zen and the Art of Cleaning Up Cat Hair

    It’s Sunday morning at 7am and I’m up with unexpected energy. We were responsible last night instead of going upstairs for extra drinks with our neighbors. We went to bed at 11! We had plans for the morning, and look at me sticking to them! I start the coffee, write a bit, and head out…

  • Celebrating Growth, Even When You’re Bad at Math

    I’ve been trying to think a lot about math lately. I’m terrible at math, I always have been. It was the only subject in school where I was happy if I even squeaked by. But it took some growing up to understand that the concepts in math are much more relatable to life than I…

  • Rainy Day Post for Robin Williams

    Yesterday afternoon I hit a writing high.  I wrote a blog post in the morning, revamped my layout in the afternoon, and submitted an article after work.  Every hour brought a new blog post idea, and by the time I left the house to write at a coffee shop, I was on fire. Yet a strong…

  • The Benefits of Being a Multi-Artist

    Feeling artistically stagnant and starved is something I didn’t understand when I was little.  If I was in a grouchy mood for days at a time, I was often told, “You just need a show!”  But I didn’t truly understand the validity of this until my twenties.  I did legitimately need to do something artistic, to…

  • If the Whole World Took an Acting Class

    As an actor, I have spent my fair share of time laying on the floor and barking at the ceiling.  Okay, I’m not barking, per se, I am sending my voice through the space from the top of my head.  I have sat on the backs of classmates and been sat on by teachers, all for…

  • An Unexpected Tale of Perseverance

    The story of my morning has three characters: a spider, the Quick Chek Man, and me. The Resilient Spider For the past week, a brown and black spotted spider, about the side of a nickel, has taken residence in our driver side mirror.  When he isn’t building his web, he crawls inside the casing, angrily taking…

  • The Train to Ben Bartolone

    Today is the fifth anniversary of meeting my incredible husband Ben.  Just before we moved further into the suburbs, I was riding the N train back from visiting a friend in Astoria (where Ben and I first lived together) and thought about the stories connected to each station.  The N line, the Path, and now NJ transit…