by Lauren Brownstein | Nov 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
This past weekend, we set back the clocks in an annual ritual that leaves me asking “Does ANYONE like it when it’s pitch black outside at 4:30 p.m.?!” The nights are longer. The temperature is dropping. For years, this shift brought down my mood and...
by Lauren Brownstein | Oct 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
** Actually, the night I worked as an extra on a film set, but why quibble over the details? This week, I had the opportunity to check an item off my “bucket list”: I worked as an extra for a film that was shooting in downtown DC! Actually, it’s a...
by Lauren Brownstein | Jul 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
I recently saw a video on TikTok that blew my mind wide open. Someone named KC Davis, TikTok username @domesticblisters, posted a video of reorganizing her refrigerator to make it “ADHD Friendly.” @domesticblisters Welcome to my ADHD fridge....
by Lauren Brownstein | Feb 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
In addition to my To Do list, I started making an I Did list. Will it help cure my “pandemic brain?” I don’t know about you, but 11 months into this thing, I’m getting what I call “pandemic brain.” I forget things. I...
by Lauren Brownstein | Jan 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Each year, I try to pick a word as my focus for the year. It’s part wish, part aspiration, part dream (as Cinderella sang, “A dream is a wish your heart makes…”). What was my word for 2020, the craziest, most unpredictable, most rollercoaster-y...
by Lauren Brownstein | Dec 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
A couple of months ago, on my first day out on my new roller skates – skates I had spent six weeks searching for, and that I had to order from another country because good quad skates were so scarce – I fell. I fell right on my butt and my right hand. Go...
