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...

Great writing, any medium, always appreciated

November 10, 2009
Grey's Anatomy has to be one of the best-written TV shows on the air today. A little out there at times, but addictive. Season after season. I've now got M. into it.What...

Hardening of the heart

November 10, 2009
There's so much talk about hardening of the arteries, at least among my age group. Stents. Bypasses. Diets. Medication.But over the past year or two I've noticed another...

Beautiful things ~ iconic Alaska

November 10, 2009
My father bagged a bear in Alaska. It was a highlight of his life. I don't believe in killing animals for sport, but I love Alaska. It always reminds me of my father. I...

Deal’s not dead

November 10, 2009
I called on the house just now.The owners are running numbers and making a final decision about whether or not to rent.If they rent, it's us.Or they stay in the house. ...

Rugs x 2

November 10, 2009
The family is together again.Yes, that is our black chow-chow.And our tiny maltipoo.Riley and Puddin' get along great.Twin rugs, tonight.M. took this while I taught.They...

Whiny student (not mine)

November 9, 2009
I am sitting my my office at the university, listening to a student berate another adjunct for giving him bad grades and for calling him to task for acting out in...

Wounded sanity

November 9, 2009
The wounded sanity of the neurotic.Isn't it a perfect line?Written by Michael Greenberg in his moving memoir about his daughter's psychosis.It's a fine line, at least...

Beautiful things ~ fruit

November 9, 2009

Of dancing, art and falling trees

November 9, 2009
Does anything better represent the sacrifices creative people make for their art than the artist's garret? The image of a rag-clad poet starving in his tower because he...

Deafening silence

November 9, 2009
We're home in Tampa. We met a bunch of really nice homeowners at six really nice homes. M. was struck by how nice everyone was. Me, too! We liked them all. We also met...

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