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 [...]
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.




