Maybe There Will Be Cupcakes

Ginny Bartolone's Blog of Many Years

Tag: life

  • 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…

  • Beaches vs. Blizzards: A little story about 2010

    Timehop can be a pretty enlightening app during its first year of use.  If you’re unfamiliar with Timehop (looking’ at you, Dad), the app displays all your social media posts and pictures taken on the current day, each year back in time.  It’s fun to check in the morning, usually to say, “Hey, another cat picture!”  But…

  • January List of Awesome for Your New Year’s Resolution

    At least in the world of blogging, I have remained rather silent the past several months, only emerging out from under my writing rock yesterday, just before the New Year.  While comfortably hibernating, I have been surprisingly busy otherwise, mainly focusing on trying to get my stubborn creativity rolling again.  It happens — you have a…

  • The Things I Couldn’t Budget for in 2015

    2015 was a year of movement.  Though bittersweet, Ben and I waved our life in Jersey City goodbye and moved out to the little haven of Montclair.  As we pulled into town with the first car load of stuff, I jokingly said, “Hey, thanks for moving to the suburbs with me!”  I could feel his mini-heart attack from across the…

  • The “Start Where You Are” Email

    Sometimes the beginning of the burnout cure is an internal or external reminder that you are no one is expecting more from you but you. As much as I continue to want high expectations for myself, I cannot pretend that I am somewhere that I’m not. That is where the burnout comes from. It is…

  • The Deception of Keeping Busy

    I’ve spent the past two days in bed- dizzy, nauseous, feverish, and angry that I can’t work.  I’ve had these symptoms since Saturday night when I woke up at 2am in a sweat about a specific bill I had forgotten about.  I had class and a great family event the next day, so I chose to…

  • Keep Shining, Rainbow Butterfly Girl

      Today is school Halloween.  Which means I am currently sitting at a desk dressed as Nancy Drew as a Panda leads a group of students (dressed as a collection of Donald Trumps, Storm Troopers, cats, and football players) up the stairs to their classes.  It’s really the best.  If I could wear a costume…

  • Friday and Its Possibilities

    Yesterday was the wackiest day. I’ve been struggling to come up with new material throughout October (I seriously almost just wrote September, because I’m convinced that month didn’t happen yet), but with the fall flying by and the projects quickly adding up, I haven’t had as much creative energy to devote to this blog than…

  • Social Media for the People, Not the Peeple

    Let’s use the tools provided by our current, functional social media platforms to lift everyone up. We are not numbers, we are not ratings, we are not Yelp reviews. We are human beings trying desperately to connect to one another and feel that we have a place in our day-to-day lives. We are trying, and…