new year
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Up From a Bad Start
Dear Conscience, The first week of 2024 is over, and it wasn’t what I had hoped for it to be. Instead of setting myself up for a good start, I’ve been threading water. But I want to head into next week with a positive attitude, so today I’ll reflect back and give myself some credit. Continue reading
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Inspiration
Dear Conscience, We’ve run through the week, and through the year! It’s Sunday, with the theme of Inspiration, just in time to open the door into 2024. What’s up? Inspiration is usually the initial spark, yet I put it at the end. Simply because I don’t have the mind space for it. I’m too worried, Continue reading
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The Closing Week of the Year
Dear Conscience, How fitting, that I had originally, earlier this year, envisioned my life improvement journey to be based on a weekly system, with each day focusing on one of 7 themes that I thought needed attention in my life. And this year, the last before turning 40, ends exactly on a Sunday, at the Continue reading
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New Beginnings
Dear Conscience, I spoke about my gripe with streaks. And here’s an example of the cruelty. I have been writing to you every day for 116 days. It is my longest streak of anything ever. Yesterday, on day 117, I wrote to you again. But I was in an airplane, so offline, and I saved Continue reading
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Stairway to 2024
Dear Conscience, What’s done is done. I won’t be home until the New Years. I’ll try to use this time to manage the trip better (for example, unpacking properly instead of living out of a jumbled suitcase mess), use pockets of time to get some things done (to reduce even by a little bit the Continue reading
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Duct-Taping the Year
Dear Conscience, I have 4 days to wrap up a large chaos, and somewhat pack up this year into a somewhat manageable ending. So, this is my 4-point plan for the next 4 days: The next 4 days are key to wrapping the year up. It won’t be a neatly wrapped package. But at least Continue reading
About Me
I got my first nickname when I was 4 years old. It was “bakitza”, which means ‘an old lady’. I’ve always been an old lady on the inside. And as I progress towards being an old lady on the outside too, I want to take control of this journey. To reach the full fledged bakitza level with a peace of mind I always associated with that life stage. I thought it would come on it’s own with age. But now I realize that I have to take control over the mess that my life currently is in order to be a thoroughly satisfied bakitza one day.
Becoming Bakitza 