by Havi Brooks | Mar 19, 2010 | updates & announcements
Because it’s Friday AGAIN. And because traditions are important. In which I cover the good stuff and the hard stuff in my week, trying for the non-preachy, non-annoying side of self-reflection. And you get to join in if you feel like it. Still weirded out that I...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 2, 2009 | stuff I think about
Right. So there were a number of things I could have conceivably been doing the afternoon before flying to Germany for two months. Like, packing maybe. Or leaving my brother instructions about weird Hoppy House-related things. Or freaking out and falling apart, as per...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 2, 2008 | ask Havi
Because I said so Actually, the credit for the brand new Ask Havi category all goes to Kelly Parkinson (aka Copylicious). Kelly, who is also my amazing writer-friend slash colleague slash cheerleader, likes to regularly point out how unfair it is that I don’t...
by Havi Brooks | Jun 30, 2008 | biggification, stuff I think about
Did you know? I’m sitting right now in my favorite cafe in Berlin. Which also happens to be my favorite cafe in the world. Favorite! To the point that were there to suddenly be some completely ridiculous law that from now on cafe-sitting is like marriage, and...
by Havi Brooks | Jun 22, 2008 | book reviews
So I read about three nonfiction books a week, mostly biggification and self-work (what regular people call business and self-help). Rated on a scale of ducks: 1 duck = Stephen Covey (yawn) and 5 ducks = Malcolm Gladwell (do a little dance). Books worth reading are...