What Is It Like to be Married? (Part Two)
[My original post on this question was written in February, 2012] Lately I've been talking to people who’ve been married fifteen or thirty or more years. For decades I've been hearing that “every marriage is different,” but I still thought marriage was supposed to fit...
The Bright Side of Mental Illness!
Guess what, everybody? There's an upside to having bipolar disorder and depression! Dr. Nassir Ghaemi runs the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts USA. His book, A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and...
Some Thrive on the Unknown
I. The dirty stove (her job) competes with the uncleaned floors (his job) for most neglected surface, but the winner is her skin. Emotions balance and unbalance, shifting positions and changing sides Who's heavier? II. It turns out the buoyant boy can sink, while the...
Happy Administrative Professional’s Day!
Administrative Professionals Day | Forward this Picture I work as admin support staff, but I like to call this Secretary's Day, too, but I might be the only person left in the country who refers to herself as a "secretary." To those of us whose workplaces...
EFT and Boston
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-boston-bombing-healing-the-pain Emotional Freedom Technique is making its way into the mainstream press! I'm excited about this.
Chicana on Twitter
You can now follow me on Twitter: @ChicanaOnEdge Welcome to even more of my inner life!
Depression Lifted! (and I’m So Damn Relieved)
Thank you so much to those of you who contacted me individually after seeing my post yesterday (I also posted on Facebook and Twitter). It really means a LOT to me when someone tells me that they're sorry I'm going through a depression. It makes me feel like someone's...
Depression, Part 6,000
It takes me down. It takes me right down and I have no idea what the trigger was. What's the reason for this bleak mood? Maybe there isn't any. I've fallen and I can't get up. Even sugar won't be my friend these days. It's stopped helping, leaving me locked in an...
Loosening the Grip of Food Over Me
Previous post on weight & health: Stranger Here: a memoir on weight loss surgery I'm still struggling to accept my new body, the one I've grown into since I stopped my lifelong punishment of starving and binge-ing. After years of forcing myself to stay a size...
Who Would Mourn the Human Race?
Original photo by Bob Martin, altered by me. I often consider the end of the human race (as I'm sure we all do). What would happen to the earth? What animals would care? Wouldn't all flora and fauna be immeasurably better off without us around to screw things up? But...
Used to be “American Association of Retired Persons”
A friend described looking at this photo as feeling like "a kick in the stomach!" How about it Gen X? Is this disturbing or what?
Appropriate / Inappropriate Pain
I envy those whose pain is socially appropriate. If someone's walking into walls, red-eyed and unable to concentrate, we excuse that if we know her dad just died or she's going through a divorce. We also give people some slack if we know they're having a bad day with...