Share Not sure exactly when it was, probably 10 or 12 years ago, when I stopped buying t-shirts. Because grown-up professionals don’t wear t-shirts, right? They wear sweaters and blouses and button downs. Jackets over cute tops with coordinating scarves and necklaces. Tailored pants. Heels. And so I thought that was what I was “supposed” [...]
About Elizabeth Potts Weinstein
The EPW Bucket List: Who Wants to Join Me?
Share What’s a bucket list? A “bucket list” is everything you want to do before you “kick the bucket” — everything you want to do before you die. The first time I made a bucket list was in my freshman year of high school. It was 1989. Sitting in the back of an auditorium filled [...]
The Real Secret to Get 12K Followers on Twitter
Share How you are with your friends, people you love and care about? When you meet them for coffee or drinks, do you stand on the chair and throw your business cards at them, screaming about your latest big launch? Do you walk around the restaurant forcing people to stand around you and be part [...]
How to Incorporate Adventure into Ordinary Life
Share The top question I got from my adventure/crazy posts: Sake & Ziplines, Couches & Swords: What I Learned on #austinadventures w/ @CouchSurfingOri, The Real Reason I’m Moving to San Francisco (video), and Making the Commitment to Signposts & Sh*t Piles was … yes, I love the idea of adventure, but I have kids, I [...]
The Real Reason I'm Moving to San Francisco
Share Yes, I was planning to move to San Diego. Yes, I’ve been talking about it since August. Yes, now I’m moving to San Francisco. And yes, you are not the only person to wonder, what the heck is up w/ that? Here’s the video to explain why …. So what do you need to [...]
Sake & Ziplines, Couches & Swords: What I Learned on #austinadventures w/ @CouchSurfingOri
Share I sat down to write this blog post about my adventures in Austin 4+ hours ago. But I did not even opened up a blank text document to get started until this moment. Instead, I futzed around on twitter. Facebook. Skype. Checked my Google Analytics. Researched when Lilith Fair will be touring this summer. [...]
Why I'm Not Setting Goals or Picking Words for 2010
Share (This post is the lame post that I didn’t publish a few days ago. But, now I’m thinking maybe it really wasn’t lame. Either way, following the assignments of my amazing commenters, here you go. If you like it, good. If not, I warned you.) Here’s the process taught by Pax Programs to find [...]
Sorry, I'm Not Feeling Epic Today
Share I’ve been trying to write a blog post for the last 4 days. This is not that post. That post freaking sucked. Okay, maybe it didn’t really *suck* … but it was definitely not epic. No matter how many times I rewrote it, how many stories I added and took away, whether or not [...]
The Truth About Vegas, or What I Did in 2009
Share I woke, sat straight up in bed, in tears, knowing in my bones that this was the moment. And I thought: “oh, fuck it.” The moment was at 5:30 AM in a hotel room in Caesar’s Palace on Saturday, June 6, 2009. I came to Las Vegas for a big “find your life purpose” [...]
Skype, Starbucks & Skin Grafts: 11 Strategies to Find Friends in Fantasyland
Share I always wanted Friends. Every Thursday night in my Junior year of college, a group of us girls would run back from night class to gather in Mindy’s dorm room, drink illicit margaritas, and revel in the details of a romanticized version of New York City life. The scenario portrayed on the 1990s TV [...]
I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.