Reinventing Rebecca » 2011

It’s a New Year, Little Lime

Resolutions. I love reading about what my friends are planning (I’m looking at you, Amber, Leslie, Kat, Erica, Sara, and Jen). I like how some of you are taking a new approach to the tradition of making New Year’s resolutions. I like the idea of changing my mindset, rather than achieving goals or committing to [...]

Reinventing Christine

I was introduced to Christine in our company’s Heath, Safety, Security, and Environment (HSSE) newsletter several months ago. Her story started out as follows: At 23 years old I weighed 255 pounds but managed to lose a total of 110 pounds over the course of 4 years. When I tell people this fact many shake [...]

Closer to the mountain

Today is my birthday, and I’m looking forward to a weekend of visitors–old friends I haven’t seen in a long time. And if that wasn’t enough happiness for one day, our friends gave birth to their beautiful son this morning. I can barely stay in my seat, I’m so excited to meet him. And yet, [...]

No. 74: Photograph the Yucca brevifolia of Joshua Tree National Park

On Sunday, November 13, 2011, the day after Camp Mighty wrapped up, Robbie and I drove from Palm Springs to Joshua Tree National Park. We spent the day driving around the park, getting out of the car to explore or take pictures when something tickled our fancy. The weather was beautiful. The Yucca brevifolia are [...]

No. 17: Build Bookshelves with my Dad

I built bookshelves with my dad during the summer of 2010, shortly before I launched this website. I sat down to write about the experience several times since then, but found that it’s hard to do it justice, and that my heart leaps to my throat when I think about how much my parents mean [...]

Realizations and Camp Mighty

As my life has taken a new direction this past year (in different and important ways), there have been several times when I felt starved for the types of deep, meaningful interaction with talented and smart people that happen in the creative world. The majority of my formative years as a professional writer were spent [...]

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My life list

Rebecca | May 23rd, 2011 | feature, life list | 3 Comments »

I love reading life lists, bucket lists, lists of places to see before you die, lists of songs and books you must read in your lifetime. Last summer, inspired by Mighty Girl Maggie Mason and many of her readers, I started a life list of my own. So far, there are only 53 items on [...]

Reinventing Daniel

Rebecca | May 18th, 2011 | books, careers, feature, reinventors | 4 Comments »

Daniel Goldin, proprietor of Boswell Book Company on Downer Avenue in Milwaukee, kindly agreed to be my first interviewee for ReinventingRebecca. Daniel and I worked together at Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops when I was first out of college, and he helped me learn the ropes of the book industry. We met for regular tête-à-têtes when I moved over [...]

Reinventing Careers | Finding inspiration

Rebecca | May 15th, 2011 | careers, feature | No Comments »

When the idea for this website took root in my mind, I was tempted to google “reinvention” and find every other site or blogger out there with a similar theme. I knew, however, that that approach would be self-destructive in a way—that I would feel deflated if it seemed like my idea was unoriginal or [...]

The first post

Rebecca | May 10th, 2011 | feature, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Here it is! My blog/website/foray into online publishing. I have tried to sit down and write this first entry countless times over the past several months. My idea for ReinventingRebecca.com started to take shape last fall, and I began to lay the groundwork—registering domain names, researching content management systems and blog applications, bouncing ideas off smart [...]