HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARIKA! In honor of this day, I think you should do what I’m doing today. WRITE.
I used to always read the blog of Jenny Lawson, popularly known as The Bloggess. She really is one of my favorite people on the Internet because she’s smart and real and broken and mended and funny. Somehow I missed her 2017 You Are Here: An Owner’s Manual for Dangerous Minds, though I was up-to-date enough to know she and her husband were opening a wonderful bookstore in San Antonio, Nowhere Bookshop. You know, just as the pandemic hit… And yet, they are offering curbside service and taking mail orders and they have readers’ groups and book reviews–so a healthy online presence. Some of Jenny’s quirkiness has been incorporated into the bookstore, which makes it even better. Trust me, one day I WILL GO THERE.
You can check out her blog, linked above–with the must-read origin of the phrase “knock-knock motherfucker” right here!–totally worth it–or follow the shop on their Instagram account.
I now have You Are Here and it’s filled with wisdom and wit, lots to think about, and even pages to color. Like this.
I left that one section uncolored for your imagination.
Always remember, small things have greatness. (Hi, Elle–will see you soon!)