Recently, someone I love very much remarked that I shouldn’t wear my new striped sweater because I’d gained weight. I’d like to blame my teary and pissed off reaction on “that time of the month”, but the truth is that that time has passed and thinking about it still makes me emotional. A couple ofContinueContinue reading “Love thyself…but lose weight”
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A few more bits of awesome
I’ve been watching a lot of TED talks lately. I watched one the other day titled “What’s so funny about mental illness?”, and I have to admit there was a theory in there that has rocked my world. To paraphrase, human brain chemistry hasn’t caught up with the fact that, in the first world atContinueContinue reading “A few more bits of awesome”
Little things that are awesome
I was going to write a blog post about the phrase “The Devil’s Advocate”, and I still may, but I find I’m not quite ready for a dissection of a linguistic idiom. Instead, I feel like sharing stuff like this: These are the fleurs that arrived on my desk on Friday. See, it was myContinueContinue reading “Little things that are awesome”
A good day
Even though I think my blog post yesterday about my first Civil War re-enactment deserves to stay on my homepage for a while, I find I just want to talk about my good day today. It’s been a while since I’ve felt I could say I had a great day, so it’s a noteworthy thingContinueContinue reading “A good day”
A Yankee’s first Civil War re-enactment: the silly and the serious
I went to a Civil War re-enactment on Saturday. It’s taken me a while to figure out how to blog about it; how to strike the right tone of respectful and incredulous. I grew up in New England. The war I studied as a kid (and remember studying) is the Revolutionary War. For me, theContinueContinue reading “A Yankee’s first Civil War re-enactment: the silly and the serious”
Everything and a Racehorse 