![Please Don’t Give Up on Me](https://isthismychair.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Me4-150x150.jpeg)
It’s been a busy, kind of strange few weeks, and I have not been blogging, but I have been writing! And besides, who could give up on such a sad sack?
![The Road that Leads to Personhood](https://isthismychair.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/cross-walk-150x150.jpg)
So. Here is my question: What do I do with my personhood? Like, my subjective, emotional, hot-heart-self? The feelings that “come up” when something happens. Anything. Rejection. Fear. Anger. Irritation. The self that arises from within a flow. Interesting to…
![Me and Joko: Really?](https://isthismychair.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/amy_butler_alchemy_linen_cotton_memoir_in_sterling-150x150.jpg)
I am doing an experiment this week: no criticizing. Why? Because I noticed that my beloved 7 year old was busting her friends’ balls, gosh, the way I bust on hers and her dads’! Oops. So I figured since it…
![Hair-Brained](https://isthismychair.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/MOM-150x150.jpeg)
My mom’s killer, low, pull-back hairdo from the 60’s has always inspired me to keep my hair long, even though I could not, would not do the work required of such piece of artistry. Even so, I always felt comforted,…
![Thanks, Elizabeth Wurtzel, (and the Kind Delusion-Dispellers at New York Magazine) for Clarifying a Few Things for This Aspiring Writer](https://isthismychair.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/E-Wurtzel-150x150.jpg)
This is fun. I get to join the ranks of the “infuriated bloggers,” according to the New York Post, as well as all the head-scratching dissectors in venues like Jezebel and many other smart writers such as Alyssa Rosenberg who…
![Praising the Lord for This Sick Day](https://isthismychair.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/victorian-classroom-children-150x150.jpg)
I have spent so many years trying to cultivate gratitude, and occasionally it appears in my heart, unmistakably. This usually occurs in the dark, in silence, in the middle of a sesshin (a silent meditation retreat that lasts up to…
![Granny’s Prune Roast Makes Me Happy](https://isthismychair.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Sarah_Bethany_Beryl-150x150.jpeg)
I came across this picture of me, my cousin Sara who I have always adored, and my Grandma Beryl, Granny’s daughter. It is, by far, the happiest-looking Little Me I have ever seen. I loved being with the Jewish side…
![Holy Humiliating: The Day I Took My Husband to My Tennis Lesson (Part Two)](https://isthismychair.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/1900_2773vintage-tennis-art-wall-racquet3-150x150.jpg)
{Art from ScrapHacker.com} My next tennis lesson, since The Incident, is tomorrow. I am nervous to see my coach. Why? Because last time I saw him I was fighting back tears, barely able to move on the court, purposely laming…