by Havi Brooks | Aug 23, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
My weekend got eaten by bears! Not really, but it did get eaten and I agreed to it and now I am sick. Surprise! But mainly I can’t decide if it’s worse that I didn’t get a weekend or a vacation that I had been so dearly looking forward to… or...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 28, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
Okay. I have come to the following realization: While we have been talking quite a bit about projects, I have not actually explained what I mean by “project”. Projects? Adventure, missions, episodes, whatever your projectizing metaphor happens to be. So...
by Havi Brooks | Jun 29, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
So this fountain is seriously, outrageously beautiful. It might be the best fountain I’ve ever seen. There are flowers all around it. And cool statues of unexpected things. And sometimes on a sunny day you see adorable children running around in their underwear...
by Havi Brooks | May 11, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
I loved the movie Memento, even though it was extremely not HSP-friendly. And, interestingly, I also loved Fifty First Dates, even though “romantic comedy with Adam Sandler” does not sound like something I’d even agree to watch. And I...
by Havi Brooks | May 10, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
Why is such a tricky question. Maybe even the trickiest. There are times when it is so completely not useful to ask why. The resistance-filled why, which takes me into self-interrogation and blame. But there is also the helpful why. The one that is loving, curious and...
by Havi Brooks | Apr 27, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
When I get stalled and stuckified — which happens all the time — I have this game I play. You stop whatever you’re doing. You look around and find five objects. Objects isn’t really a big enough category. Five somethings. Could also be things...
