Emily Ellet

My biggest concern before coming home was that I would lose the more relaxed approach to life I had discovered on the cruise ship.  I am a BIG-TIME Overachiever (with a capital o!), who spent pretty much every minute of her life from about 12 to 29 attempting to do more.  I was a volunteer in multiple organizations no matter where I lived, a participant in tons of different extracurriculars, not to mention my own CEO, hustling up work at every opportunity (and then doing said

Part of it is human.  Just as children like rules (I could write a whole blog post about that!), adults like routine.  It’s comforting, for one; most morning coffee and tea drinkers like the ritual more than the drink itself.  It’s reliable, unlike life itself.  And it gives you the feeling of control and order. Another part of this is encouraged in school.  In college, I took an entire class devoted to defining “my acting process” and another class that emphasized developing

Our peers were aghast (though I’m not sure they would have known what the word meant), but I have very fond memories of playing outside, creating intricate worlds with Legos and Little Tykes, and of reading.  A movie was a once-a-week treat, it seemed, primarily on Friday nights when we had “Silly Dinner” – a.k.a. whatever you wanted, as much as you wanted.  (My dinners usually consisted of popcorn, ice cream, and cheddar cheese; in retrospect, this would have been such a gre