As I mentioned before, my new therapist prescribed a book for me, The Mindful Way through Depression.  I’ve only just started reading it, because the Portland Snowpocalypse delayed its arrival via UPS.
I think mindfulness is going to take a lot of re-training for my brain. Author Jon Kabat-Zinn says “Mindfulness means paying attention in a [...]

Happy New Year!  I’ve been reading feeds on Google Reader, and everyone’s got either a Year in Review post or a New Year’s Resolutions/Goals post (or sometimes both).  I don’t have one for you.  I’m pretty satisfied with how 2008 went.  I’m looking forward to 2009.  I don’t have specific goals, though.  I mentioned to [...]

I have to admit now that I will not be a NaNoWriMo winner this year.  Again.  I hate admitting that, both because I really did want to do it, and because I was quite vocal about NaNoWriMo on Twitter.
Actually, I admitted to myself a couple of weeks ago that it just wasn’t happening.  It’s been [...]

Could these questions and answers be put on standardized tests, or drivers license tests, or something, so that everyone will know the correct answers?
1.  When shopping in a crowded grocery store on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, you should:
a. move at twice the speed of everyone else
b. plow through intersections without so much as looking to [...]

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The tomatoes are going unpicked.  The kitchen floor is going unswept.  But we made it to daycare and school and work and everything today.  Life is moving along.

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