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...

Beautiful things~Yosemite

November 17, 2009
Friends often ask what I love so much about northern California.(And do get this right, it's NORTHERN, because to us, the southern part of the state simply does not...

The Queen had it right (with apologies to Mr. Carroll)

November 17, 2009
Conventional wisdom says it doesn't happen often, but I say it happens more than we think.I know at least four people who've married people they've had affairs...

What happened to Coach?

November 17, 2009
Have you been in a Coach store these days?Their goods, once my all-time favorite, now look like a cross between Ed Hardy and Versace."Garish," my girlfriend pointed...

Tabloid break

November 16, 2009
I thought I'd read the perfect tabloid news today: David Letterman's wife threw him out of the house. Ah, yes. As she should have. Then I read this, said to...

Truth, trust, trouble

November 16, 2009
Riley's a little dog.When I hold him in my arms, high in the air -- some 10 or more times his height -- he looks at me with total trust.He knows he's safe.That I will...

Beautiful things – Mary Cassatt

November 16, 2009
One of my favorite painters. Her mother and child paintings are...

Silence is overrated

November 16, 2009
I'm known for calling it like I see it.It's not always pretty.It's not always welcome.But it's usually congruent.I believe that talking is important.And that silence is...

New or old, never out of style

November 16, 2009
Old-school or new-fangled, the Back Space key never goes out of style.Back Space allows us to stop, step back and take another look.After considering our actions, we...

Been there, done that

November 15, 2009
Comment from my husband this morning, via phone from Miami:We haven't even moved to California yet and we're talking about living in London for a while.Welcome to my...

Peace, love & creative writing

November 15, 2009
I've met with my new client, that big household name company that has engaged me to do a creative writing workshop for its stable of 25 writers.They'd like to inject...

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