Paige Nesbitt
I am a Los Angeles native whose parents, all 3.5 of them, did their level best to provide something close to a "normal" upbringing. Writing became my passion and my mirror to the world somwhere around age seven. Back then, almost everything started with "Roses are red, violets are blue..." and proceeded into something else completely obscure.
Through high school at Marlborough School and college at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. I refined my writing style a bit. I graduated from Vanderbilt in 2000 with a BA in Theater and French, hell-bent on being a TV news producer. That did not last.
A few years later, I returned to school to get my MBA in Finance. As my father Pat likes to exclaim incredulously, "my daughter, a Theater major, has an MBA...in Finance." Thanks, Pops.
During business school, I worked, studied and began writing more often. And writing. And a few months later, I realized all of my recent writing had a consistent theme. Eureka!
Martini Rescue Squad is the title for my manuscript for my first book. I wrote it and rewrote it over about three years. You could call it an evolutionary work.
I am 33 years old, single and happy. I date a fair amount and have a number of amazing friends, men and women, married and single. Do not get me wrong - I fully intend to get married and have a family someday. But until then, am determined to juice this period in life for everything it has to offer.
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Through high school at Marlborough School and college at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. I refined my writing style a bit. I graduated from Vanderbilt in 2000 with a BA in Theater and French, hell-bent on being a TV news producer. That did not last.
A few years later, I returned to school to get my MBA in Finance. As my father Pat likes to exclaim incredulously, "my daughter, a Theater major, has an MBA...in Finance." Thanks, Pops.
During business school, I worked, studied and began writing more often. And writing. And a few months later, I realized all of my recent writing had a consistent theme. Eureka!
Martini Rescue Squad is the title for my manuscript for my first book. I wrote it and rewrote it over about three years. You could call it an evolutionary work.
I am 33 years old, single and happy. I date a fair amount and have a number of amazing friends, men and women, married and single. Do not get me wrong - I fully intend to get married and have a family someday. But until then, am determined to juice this period in life for everything it has to offer.
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MBA, Finance - Pepperdine University, Graziadio School of Business and Management; Graduate Certificate in Public Relations - UCLA; BA, French and Theater - Vanderbilt UniversityAffiliations
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Letting Go of the Things that No Longer Suit You, Part II of IIThe question is, what mantras and mentalities had I or any of us adopted as foundational to our perspective on things, but that may no longer serve us? That may reverse all of the good we had done ourselves by adopting... -
Letting Go of the Things that No Longer Suit You, Part I of IIThe tricky thing is, some of those mantras and mentalities may have been useful to us at one point, but they now only serve to perpetuate those unhealthy situations and habits...But chipping away at them, with a few mani-pedis in between...
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Not All It's Cracked Up to BeHolding on is pretty straightforward...Letting go, however, that is more complicated. It seems there are three types of "letting go" and each requires a distinct perspective on the situation to bolster your conviction... -
Closing 2010 with Poppy's PoemsPoppy, my great grandfather, was a soldier, self-made entrepreneur, family man and poet. He passed in 1963, thus I never had the opportunity to meet him. I know him only through my relatives' and family friends' stories, and his writing...
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Giving IntentionThere is the conflict '" is this time of year so special because of the "stuff" we give each other, or is it so special because of what those gifts represent?...Is our focus on the gift, or on the giving?
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This Time Next Year --As much as I love being single, this time next year, I will have heard to pair of feet crunch the asphalt crumbles while walking to the car. And there you have it, the promise of a date-date 12 months from then...How fitting that seemed.
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GlamKIf you follow your ideal strategy, by 11 a.m. on any given Saturday, you could have had a good run, made a new friend, given your number to a handsome, fit man, placed yourself in a couple of terrific pictures, had a delicious brunch and...
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Martini Holiday Game: Name that Photoshopee, Round I of V...Should you choose to play this game, your challenge is to be the first person each week to correctly identify who, if any of us, is the Photoshopee '" or to correctly assess that all of us were actually present when that picture was taken.
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Stuffed...We can't ever take those for granted. Most of us don't. And most of us are tired of hearing about it. But take those words above - look at those pictures in your mind and let me know when you start to feel viscerally filled with gratitude.
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"Honey, I Just Want You to Be Happy""Honey, I just want you to be happy" are some of the most loaded words we single women in our 20s/30s can hear. What these words impart is a loving and generous sentiment '" a concern for our welfare. What they imply is something quite different.
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Part of Your World, Part II of II...More than anything I had expected, or resolved not to expect, it's the truth that everything works out as it should that impressed me.
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Part of Your World, Part I of IIHave you ever had a week or two that you had planned as a big push forward that instead brought a few things full circle, that shows you how enormous is this life? And how preciously small are the things that make it so?
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BiodomeWe are both women who rely on ourselves for almost everything. Anything in life we want to have happen, we know the motion in that direction must start with us. But what happens when you have done everything you can...
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Love Means..Imagine this: my four parents, my biological brother, and me seated peacefully - no, happily - around the same dinner table at a relatively nice restaurant. How remarkable! In this benevolent setting is exactly where my lessons started that week.
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Oh, My..When you find yourself swept away in a good yoga class, especially when your teacher is a dreamy-eyed, fantasy-bodied man, this is where the enchantment can get a bit colorful...
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Optimistic RealismFew things have made me angrier than the words "Defensive Pessimism" --
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15 Years Ago Today, I Should Have Died - August 19, 2010, Part II of IIFrom what I hear, 15 years ago today I should have died. It was an accident. Far more powerful than the fact that it could have killed me is the fact that it gave everyone involved the opportunity to see how powerful love, faith and selflessness can be.
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15 Years Ago Today, I Should Have Died - August 19, 2010, Part I of IIFrom what I hear, 15 years ago today I should have died. It was an accident. Far more powerful than the fact that it could have killed me is the fact that it gave everyone involved the opportunity to see how powerful love, faith and selflessness can be.
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Life is a GardenTo follow "Handy's "pothole revelation, just as it can feel empowering to do things yourself, it is empowering to realize we can't do everything by ourself. Sometimes, our life is made richer by picking the right people to do them with us.
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Handy, Part II of IIHuman ingenuity to solve problems is astonishing. Thank goodness for professional problem-solvers, repairpeople. Sometimes, e.g. in case of a pothole,it's empowering to do fix ourselves...even if our solutions are slightly uncoventional.
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Handy, Part I of IIHuman ingenuity to solve problems is astonishing. Thank goodness for professional problem-solvers, repairpeople. Sometimes, e.g. in case of a pothole,it's empowering to do fix ourselves...even if our solutions are slightly uncoventional.
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LaundryWe all know we are not supposed to air our dirty laundry. It's not polite and honestly, most people probably do not want to hear it. Sometimes it takes a real friend who will listen to us sort through it and hold us accountable for over-rationalizing.
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Reflections on a Suntan, Part III of IIIHere is the quandary: I love being single. However, when certain men pique my interest, why is it those men in my deepest fantasy are nowhere near good matches? And is this typical?
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Reflections on a Suntan, Part II of IIIHere is the quandary: I love being single. However, when certain men pique my interest, why is it those men in my deepest fantasy are nowhere near good matches? And is this typical?
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Reflections on a Suntan, Part I of IIIHere is the quandary: I love being single. However, when certain men pique my interest, why is it those men in my deepest fantasy are nowhere near good matches? And is this typical?
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LayoverMany of us single women in our twenties or thirties who are not fresh out of college, but are not yet married with children tend to treat this time as a layover, i.e. a transitional phase that lacks substance and legitimacy; it "doesn't really count."
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Hell Is..Hell is being the only single person at a Valentine's Weekend destination wedding on an island full of married people. Let's review the situational specifics:
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Be GracefulI think it's natural to feel tempted to act petty when we have a reason to be insecure. Another thing that is more natural, but harder to obey, is an instinct to honor our higher purpose. In my friend Clarissa's words, to "be graceful."
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The Queen Mum - Part III of IIIOn one of her recent Botox-and-docs trips, I re-realized how much I love her. How grateful I am to have such an incredible role model. Nothing was different, but the one who was having all of the trouble with her her-ness, i.e. I, saw something new.
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The Queen Mum - Part II of IIIAround age 28, I softened. Put her back up on that pedestal with a placard, "The Queen Mum," but for various reasons I engraved on it the small caveat '" "She's a role model of the past." I.e. doesn't work for me. That served me well for a few years...
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The Queen Mum - Part I of IIIMy grandmother is 85 years-old, blonde and extraordinary. Her hair, make-up and clothing ensemble are always impeccable. She is almost always smiling. And her attention often fades away to some mystical place. That's not age. She has always done that.
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Wait.There's wisdom to waiting when you have to. When you do not have a choice. Divine speed bumps. Wait. Breathe. Deeply.
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Hypothetically, Ahem..Hypothetically, if I were to, oh...send a message out to the universe or post a personal profile on a dating website, I'm pretty sure it would read like this --
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Thursday, 2:45 PMThere is something ingenious about the cafe - the nexus of a city's power players, housewives, disaffected hipsters and students alike. An institution built around an outrageous mark-up on ground beans and water with maybe a little milk or sweetener.
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SnowballEver feel like some of our friends have exactly the life we may want, but that is just not how our life is destined to go? So builds the snowball with us trapped in the middle until we crash into the inevitable conclusion that we will never be as happy --
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ChangeFor now, our prerogative is to be our most glorious self, treat others and ourselves well, laugh as often as possible and trust that everything will fall into place.
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Martini Rescue Squad - IntroductionThis blog is not about how to catch a man, lose a man or make your man happy. This blog is about making the most of being single today. About embracing it with peace and a fair amount of sarcasm. About being happy with our life exactly how we make it.