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...

Sit! Saturday – an update

November 21, 2009
It's been such an eventful week that I haven't had a moment to take photos. So here is the scoop:M. was gone for 5 days and I had all the pets to myself.So let's see:...

Let Creation reveal its secrets

November 21, 2009
Jackson Browne. Appeared tonight. Clearwater.Fabulous, as usual. This was the fourth time I've seen him.He closed the concert with this, one of my very favorites.That...

Beautiful things – handstamped cards

November 20, 2009
Aren't these cute?They are hand-stamped cards and products offered by Paper Pastries, at both its LA store and its online Etsy shop.They are just adorable. I saw them on...

Beautiful things ~ colorful fabric

November 20, 2009
I love fabric and especially colorful fabric. This struck my fancy the other...

Love in a time of war

November 20, 2009

Cultural shorthand

November 20, 2009
I was visiting a friend in California the other week. An Italian-American, like we are.Her niece, visiting from New Jersey, cooked us a fabulous pasta dinner. The...

Women helping women

November 20, 2009
I've had the chance recently to connect various women in business to one another for their mutual benefit.Even though I've "retired" from the business world, sort of,...

Gratitude Friday ~ grandfathers

November 20, 2009
Looking at a photograph of a friend of mine and his granddaughter brought back memories of my own beloved grandfather.How he'd take me for outings when I was a little...

Roch-cha-cha

November 20, 2009
Cruising around Facebook the other night, I looked at some photos from my 40th high school reunion this past summer. I am not in touch with my friends and classmates...

Gratitude Friday – flower power

November 19, 2009
I am grateful that I came of age during a time when peace and love were the bywords.When cynicism had not yet taken root.When the world was full of possibility.And I...

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