Aftermath: Logistics (Grieving Futures)
It is easy to just do something when a person dies, because there is certainly enough to do…
REC Saturday: Auntie Mame (movie)
REC Saturday: Auntie Mame Quite by accident, a reconnected with a dear lost friend and when I went to friend her on FaceBook, I realized that we both had the SAME Auntie Mame quote in our profile: “Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!” (We...
Opening the Possibility Box
It’s not that my (small, scattered) family has financially and emotionally helped support me through this very challenging year that surprises me; no, what floors me is that they want to. Historically I’ve thought of myself as The Caretaker, a role that became very...
REC Saturday: An inspirational post
REC Saturday: Wherein I link to a very inspirational post written by someone else!
REC Saturday: The Enneagram
A while back, my therapist suggested I looking into enneagram studies as a method of self-analysis. I waved my hand around and said “sure!” and ignored her advice completely (which, alas, is something I tend to do a lot. It at least gives her many opportunities to say...
Some Days are Better than Others
Yesterday I had a major paper to work on as a final project for my grad school end of term, and I could not pull myself together to work on it. It is due this week, and is a fairly involved project, so I did not actually have the time to waste. But I did anyway. Days...
Rec Saturday: Fear and Permission TEDtalk
Chris Guillebeau of The Art of Nonconformity is definitely one of Those Awesome Persons, having always lived his life "dangerously" by taking risks and working to live up to his ideals. He's someone I admire and aspire to emulate. This short TEDtalk vid (17 minutes)...
Tragedy changes us; Patience tempers us; Fortitude keeps us going.
Lessons in grief, crisis, and recovery from 30 years of life as an adult orphan from a GenX woman who has resentfully struggled every step of the way.
