by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 17, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I’m not an emotional person, although I often get choked up watching commercials. Or movies. Or episodes of Parenthood. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 16, 2015 | 1 true thing, accumulation |
In direct contradiction with my tendency to save stuff, and/or because of it, I love getting rid of things and fantasize about a life with only the minimum. I imagine what the minimum would look like–seven of everything clothes-wise, ten books, one set of...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 15, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Yesterday was a travel day, and today I’m back home. When I first sat down at my desk, my mind felt too cluttered to start writing this… Having been gone a week, I felt the need to attend to small details (mail, a list for tomorrow and another for the week...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 14, 2015 | 1 true thing |
My father always told me I could do anything I set my mind to. And I believed him. Small case in point. As a freshman in college I got a job as a waitress, something I’d never done before. That first day on the job, a Sunday, I was the only waitress at the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 13, 2015 | 1 true thing, provincetown |
For me, it’s not egrets or bears or violets or moss. It’s the water. Any water–a lake, a fountain, the rain. Seeing it and hearing it. First choice used to be the ocean–the continuous roar with periodic crashings. But then I discovered the...
