Practical ways to fight depression

October 3, 2025
How to Fight Depression: A Compassionate Guide for the Journey Depression isn’t just sadness. It’s a heavy fog that can roll into our lives and cloud everything we see, touch, and feel. It’s not weakness. It’s not a flaw. It’s an illness—and it’s one many of us face, especially as...

Gift suggestions

December 5, 2009
One of the great things about the blogosphere is that people share all sorts of great information. Like their favorite shops and stuff.I thought I'd share a few things...

Roch-cha-cha

December 5, 2009
That's a nickname we have for our hometown, Rochester, NY.Cruising around Facebook the other night, I looked at some photos from my 40th high school reunion, held this...

Under advisement

December 5, 2009
Our dance teacher has asked if we would dance the swing in the student showcase at the Christmas party next Friday night.!!! There are people we know, friends, who...

Gratitude Friday ~ a friend’s hand

December 4, 2009
People lose touch.Especially when they move as much as I have.One of my closest friends from 30 years ago got in touch this week and we spent a very long time catching...

77 cents

December 4, 2009
Back in the days when I worked for Silicon Valley high techs, I drew a few bosses who happened to be women. And had female colleagues at the senior level.Unlike men,...

Musical interlude

December 3, 2009

Dark and bitter

December 3, 2009
Dark. And oh, so hard-edged and bitter.That describes a few people I knew well, once upon a time.I was going to say that life’s dealt them a few hard blows, but I’m...

Concentration, distraction, multi-tasking & college stu

December 3, 2009
It's easy to think that attention-deficit disorders are just the latest figment of our collective imaginations. The kids' disease du jour. Something else to obsess...

Cup-cakes

December 3, 2009
Don't you love the way the word rolls off your tongue? The alliteration?Cupcakes.Sounds like they...

Practice … makes perfect

December 2, 2009

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