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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No. 8: Finish my Master’s degree

Rebecca | June 15th, 2011 | careers, feature, life list | No Comments »

I admit, it may have been cheating a bit to put ”Finish my Master’s degree” on my life list after I had finished coursework and a few months before I defended my thesis, but I had reasons for including it. First, it was a goal I had worked toward for five years, and there were points during that [...]

No. 20: Try kayaking

Rebecca | June 8th, 2011 | feature, life list, outdoor adventures | No Comments »

Over the next month or so I plan to write about the three or four goals I checked off my life list since I started it last summer. First up, kayaking! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * [...]

No. 71: Speak my love

Rebecca | June 1st, 2011 | feature, life list | 1 Comment »

Several years ago my family helped my brother move into our dad’s aunt’s home. Her husband, our dad’s uncle, had recently passed away, and my brother moved in to help take care of the farm, which had been the family homestead for generations. He now lives in the part of the farmhouse that for many [...]