Category Archives: 2010 – Review

The blog’s the word: the most common words from the year

One  great way to reflect on what you’ve done – and something I love doing to generate new ideas –  is to look back at what you’ve written.  Wordle is one of my favorite sites for creating word clouds from text.  Sometimes I do brain-storming with clients and then quickly plug the notes into wordleContinue Reading

2010 in review: travel

#Reverb10 offers a month of reflection and prompts for each day. I’m doing a handful of them on this blog, plus a few of my own for a 2010 in review series. December 22 is about Travel. How did you travel in 2010? How and/or where would you like to travel next year? Travel.  WhatContinue Reading

2010 in review: achieve

#Reverb10 offers a month of reflection and prompts for each day. December 28 is achieve: Tara Sophia, the author, prompts us to look beyond the goals and the lists that we create – and instead, imagine the feeling that each of these achievements creates. When we reach a certain goal, we have attained more thanContinue Reading

Defining moment: Running.

I run. This year, I ran a lot. Ran for sheer joy, out of exhaustion, to escape my work life, to find new places, to learn, and to start or end my day. I ran to explore, to test my capabilities, to challenge my mind, and most often, just to be. To simply be. TheContinue Reading

2010 in review: ordinary joy

#Reverb10 offers a month of reflection and prompts for each day. I’m slowly catching up, and enjoying the prompts, however delayed. December 27 is ordinary joy. *** *** *** Yesterday I ran to the bus stop, almost missing the bus, to jump on the 38L and transverse San Francisco, east to west. My apartment isContinue Reading

2010 in review: photo

#Reverb10 offers a month of reflection and prompts for each day. I’m slowly catching up, and enjoying the prompts, however delayed. December 25 is a photo: This was in Philadelphia, at Penn’s Landing by the Delaware River, with two of my closest friends, Matt and Alexandra. Photograph by Matt Sklar. *** *** *** Philadelphia. Oh,Continue Reading

2010 in review: one word

Perhaps this shall be dubbed the year of not me. Reverb 10 keeps getting me stuck on trying to figure out what one word will explain the year 2010, and what word I’d like to use to describe 2011. I’m okay with 2011. I think somewhere between epic and slow would suffice, if I had to describe my dreamsContinue Reading