Month: May 2014

Snippets of My Week(s) #4

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On AltChat yesterday, I mentioned that by telling some small stories behind my Instagram pics, there is a little peak into bp behind the writing.  Follow me @blogger_bp to join in the fun!  This Snippets of My Week series has been fun for me and I am happy to hear you like it too. I am behind on my snippets, with pictures and stories collected over the course of two weeks.  Who knows what I see or hear will make me write about next, but at least my snippets give you a look into the things in life that this gal is sweet on ….  speaking of which… ONE   Talk about sweet.  Not only is this a collection of yummies, but these were all little treats I received from friends in a week.  Gluten free?  Check!  Dairy free?  Double check!  Surprise sweets are even sweeter when they are from thoughtful, loving people.  And that giant slice of baby shower cake to celebrate one of my best gals?  I couldn’t eat it (okay, maybe just …

That Girl

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I am that girl who asks the questions she really can’t handle the answers to. I am that girl who misplaces her neck cream and finds it days later under her bed. I am that girl who plays imaginary Go Fish with invisible cards at a table of two year olds. I am that girl who gets nostalgic each time she makes a smoothie in the blender she received as a wedding gift. I am that girl who lives for heels but lives in flats. I am that girl who hoards paper and stationery. I am that girl who used to paint and draw. I am that girl who buys fresh ginger week after week just to find them all shriveled on the kitchen countertop month after month. I am that girl who has half used tubes of lotion and random lipgloss in each and every bag. I am that girl who can pull splinters out of tiny hands with her finger tips, pick tan bark out of a preschooler’s nostril, and clear pebbles out …

Great Un-expectations

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  It’s so gratifying to become effortlessly engaged with a new person, especially when you do not assume upon first meeting to have much in common. I simply strolled into a gallery right before closing time to explore.  I peruse in galleries and museums almost as much as I do in shops and department stores.  Food for the mind and soul, don’t you agree?  It was such a treat when the owner of the gallery noted my curiosity in his collection of American work.   I was introduced to Helen Frankenthaler’s soak-stain technique, the detail in Donald Sultan’s flocking,  and Alex Katz’s figurative artistry.  Mr. Meyerovich and I fed off of each other’s enthusiasm for art and approach,  darting from one area of the gallery space to another to appreciate assorted mediums. We naturally began talking about a wider range of topics, including how birth order affects sibling roles, the power of psychotherapy,  and the potential for people to switch careers, finding passion in varied fields within one lifetime. He told me he became an …

Snippets of My Week #3

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Sometimes the mind doesn’t cooperate, even after writing for close to 14 or 15 hours on one post over two days.  Upside:  I always have my snippets to recharge the batteries! Enjoy my Snippets from the week that was … and I will be back guns blazing tonight, or tomorrow- at some point… come back, okay??? MONDAY Toffifay and our Furbish Studio piñatas! There are few things that make us laugh more than seeing our little penguin getting his fiesta on for Cinco de Mayo. + I still let loose, but it’s different in my 30s.  Click here for my post on My Thirty Spot. While in my last year as a 30-something, I still have time to write about life from this perspective.  Erin Kennedy’s Love for 30 Project is just the venue for a post like that. My contribution was published on My Thirty Spot that morning. Click here. + + + TUESDAY The Thistle Juice bar at StudioMix. My intentions were honorable, but maybe I shouldn’t have thought eating only half of a banana …

If These Shoes Could Talk

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My intention was to buy a top.  A top for my new spring pants.  Walking past the shoe salon proved challenging.  I poked around to jog my memory for what to pull from my own shoe closet.  We all know it never ends there.  It hardly ever does end at looking, does it? If these shoes could talk, they’d say: I go with everything. Barre and Pilates classes, even if taken four days a week, won’t get you standing taller than I can. Yes, they WILL notice. Does it really matter whether or not you can stand around or dance comfortably in me? After a few drinks, you won’t care. Even if you  convince yourself I am similar to another pair you have, you want me anyway. I don’t cost THAT much. Yes, you deserve it. Well that settles that, doesn’t it?

Letting Loose While Still In My Thirties

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Hop on over to My Thirty Spot and see how different letting loose is for me now.  Photo source. I have been a fan of MyThirtySpot since finding Erin Kennedy’s thirties-centered blog last year. Once I hit “publish” after completing my post entitled  Why I Am Not Sweating My Late-r Thirties last summer,  I was interested in finding similarly toned subjects focused on thirty-something women, and found Erin’s blog.  Her contributors’ segment, Love for 30, is a perfect opportunity  to share my writing with a wider audience. It also prompted me to think, “Goodness, I’d better contribute something original to Erin for review while I am still in my thirties.”    I was thrilled to hear back immediately from Erin recently with an opening to join her community.  How proud I am to have a guest post on My Thirty Spot today!  Though it took me a year to revisit my plan, I made it, AND I am still in my thirties.  You must check it out.  {Click here} to read why Letting Loose is Different in My Thirties.

Snippets of My Week #2

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  I must admit, this past week was an emotional doozy for me. I needed to call in reinforcements.  My mind and nerves were rearranged like a Rubix cube, but there were many sources of happiness that  I outright sought for which I am thankful.  As SoulCycle always reminds me when we chat, “Remember those little moments, because you will always find them.” Take a look at my moments from the past week, in this case: Snippets of What Made Me Happy     I am in love with happy mail.  Just the thought of it makes me smile from ear to ear.  I love to receive it but I get a real kick (the good kind) in creating and sending it.   This week I sent out a few candy grams to some blog mentors.  Chocolate makes everything sweeter!   When you are surprised your shoe box holds actual shoes, you know you have a problem.  I have paper tucked into several bins, drawers and shoe boxes.   They hold stickers …  and ribbon …

The Semi Anonymous Blogger

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Call me “a semi anonymous blogger”.  Club-kid approached me when she arrived at the Style and Musings party and asked, “bp, what exactly do you mean by being a semi anonymous blogger?”  I explained it by saying, I don’t put my face out there nor do I tell everyone in my personal life that I do this.  I tell people I am writing, but I don’t tell them I am a blogger really.  I have blog friends, and a blog life, but I still keep it essentially to the people who I know “get it”.   Since I am still determining what I want to do with my blog, I can’t explain it to anybody else.  Semi anonymous.  If you know who I am offline, great.  If you are interested to know more about me and follow @blogger_bp on Instagram or Twitter,  welcome! Enjoying and digesting my posts while snuggled up at the end of a long week with your iPad in your jammies as Chocoholic does, is the ultimate in flattery.  I want my writing to …