Sasha Cagen
Auteur van Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics
Werken van Sasha Cagen
To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us (2007) 117 exemplaren
Cupsize (Issue #5) 1 exemplaar
To-Do List #1: a Magazine of Meaningful Minutiae 1 exemplaar
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- Geboortedatum
- 1973-09
- Geslacht
- female
- Geboorteplaats
- Cranston, Rhode Island, USA
- Opleiding
- Amherst College
Barnard College - Korte biografie
- [from author's website]
I'm a coach and writer known for thought-provoking work on topics such as relationships, personal growth, and women's empowerment. My writing feeds my coaching, and my coaching shapes my writing.
People know me best as the author of the book Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics (HarperOne). I also wrote To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us (Simon & Schuster). I am at work on a memoir called Wet. My books and coaching approach have been featured in various media outlets such as CNN, NPR, Vogue, and the New York Times.
Since 2011, I've worked as a life and executive coach specializing in helping women 40+ create turned-on lives, careers, and businesses.
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To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul… door Sasha Cagen
I am a compulsive list maker. This book was fascinating to me and explains so much about my obsession. I am a 'done' list maker and I also keep my notebooks for years and years. I have learned that If I think to use them as a resource to memory...the item I go back to look for is always missing..that will be the thing I didn't write down on the day. One really fabulous thing about this book is the copies of the lists. I was one of those lefties who was forced to switch to my right hand by teachers with rulers that smacked me if I picked up anything with my left hand. As a consequence I am ambidextrous but write poorly with both hands, the only one to fail penmanship in my class in high school. My mother and sister were also lefties and write beautifully. All my life I hated my writing which makes it odd that I write constantly all day every day. This book is filled with lists written in awful writing and printing. I am not alone in unreadable penmanship. My only cavil about the book is ...each list should have been put in typeface so that those of us with poor eyesight could actually read what was written.… (meer)
This was a comforting book to read, and I do tend to classify as a "Quirkyalone", with a few exceptions to the author's definition as such. First of all, I don't consider myself to be an "Uncompromising Romantic" as it states in the title, not at all. And I don't need to be given suggestions as to what to do with my time that's not being spent having babies or searching for wedding gowns or going to PTA meetings or even couples therapy.
But still, it's nice to know that there's a world of singles out there that are not desperate to settle down *immediately*, and don't need to be in a relationship to feel defined.
However, I must say that I felt that the ultimate message of the book was, indeed, "just be patient and *one day* it *will* happen for you." *That* message I can get from my mother, thanks. What I needed to hear was "Just keep on keepin' on, and do your thing, girl."
But maybe I'm just sensitive...… (meer)
But still, it's nice to know that there's a world of singles out there that are not desperate to settle down *immediately*, and don't need to be in a relationship to feel defined.
However, I must say that I felt that the ultimate message of the book was, indeed, "just be patient and *one day* it *will* happen for you." *That* message I can get from my mother, thanks. What I needed to hear was "Just keep on keepin' on, and do your thing, girl."
But maybe I'm just sensitive...… (meer)
I meant to read this book many many years ago, but it took me until last year to actually track down a free copy and up until now to actually work my way through it. For the most part I ended up finding myself vastly disappointed. It's only saving grace was the basic concept behind the whole thing, that is that our culture is far too obsessed with relationships and there are a lot of people out there who will make themselves completely miserable simply to be able to keep the cache of being in a relationship. Over all the work was somewhat muddled and juvenile.… (meer)
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