Eliana Osborn
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Eliana Osborn Articles
The other magical thing about living in 2015 is the Internet. You can get great training in all kinds of fields while sitting in your underwear at home.
Read...My Life on the Road (or MLR) is not what I expected...the idea of not waiting for experience to come to you permeates the book.
Read...I’m not there yet. But I need to be honest—I’m closer to 40 than any other multiple of five.
Read...If you kill a tortoise, even on accident, you probably shouldn’t have children.
Read...Size, like age and salary and whatever else, is just a number. Pretending numbers don’t measure things isn’t helpful. I’m 38 years old: That isn’t good or bad, but it IS different from being 18 or 50.
Read...I look tired when I stay up too late. I also look tired if I get eight hours of sleep.
Read...I’m terrified of wrongful imprisonment. To be the only one who knows the truth and have to live every day in a cell, wondering, why, god, why? [...] Sitting hooked up for gadgets to monitor every aspect of my mind and body, in a small room without any distraction, I see how a person could lose herself — or the truth — for a moment.
Read...I’m not a fan of repeating things over and over so that they lose their meaning. "Pledge: a solemn promise or agreement." It is that extra level, the solemnity, that makes me uncomfortable with casual usage.
Read...There are some days of parenting that are magical, full of unicorns and four leaf clovers and lottery winnings. Those are the moments when I catch myself, just for a second, feeling content and happy and looking around trying to freeze things. Out of 7000 days, those maybe make up five a year.
Read...I always have a small piece of my brain on mom mode, no matter what else is happening. I have no problem with this, since that is how humanity has survived.
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