On August eighth, I made the following post on Instagram: Depression and anxiety tell you that if only you were different in some way — stronger, smarter, whatever — you wouldn’t be feeling what you are feeling. It’s funny-not-funny how…
Category: Depression
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen this post: I had about a zillion (give or take) ideas that I wanted to write. As is so often the case, I felt like everything had to be done…
Before you read this post, please know that I am talking very directly about the issues of depression, PTSD, the destruction of the World Trade Center, and suicide. If you are not prepared to deal with these topics for any…
When adults don’t fill their reserves of joy with playful activities, they can find themselves going through the motions. Play is good for all people.
Last Thursday, outside of my normal Wednesday posting schedule, I wrote a post I had not expected to write (Everybody wants to save the world, and I am no exception). In it, I laid out the reason I write and…
Leo Tolstoy said, “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” With all the respect due the late Mr. Tolstoy, I am not everyone, nor am I no one.
“You’ll be swell, you’ll be great Gonna have the whole world on a plate Starting here, starting now” -Everything’s Coming Up Roses, Stephen Sondheim If you have read any of my blogs here, you probably already know that I want…
Recently I have been seeing a lot of people wondering how to get out of a funk/the blues/a bad mood. This is a case of true synchronicity because I, myself, was looking for direct action to take to beat the…
There’s an app on Facebook called On This Day. It allows you to look back at status statements you’ve posted on this day over the past years. Yesterday I saw a post I had made where I used the hashtag…