Archive for the 'personal well-being' Category
Back
I probably won’t be doing a lot of blogging this week. I’ve a long history of back problems as well as recurrent carpal tunnel syndrome, the latter brought on by a writing career, and both came together in unholy matrimony this weekend. On Friday and Saturday, I could barely turn my head in [...]
Read More..>>Back Yard Garden Zen, June Edition
It’s been a while since I posted anything about the backyard garden, but today we completed some pretty incredible work. I’ve got photos.
The week before the trip to Austin, my parents dropped off more used cedar, which I used to make our new bed. I found some time to pick up a bunch of [...]
Oddness
Yesterday my friend over at Booman Tribune posted an open thread asking “What’s odd in your life?” I didn’t have anything to add at the time, but I do now.
The past couple of years have kind of put me through the wringer, and it’s seemed that nothing I was doing really helped, including my [...]
A Realization
Yesterday I paid my weekly visit to my shrink, and for the first time ever, she started ranting instead of me. “Have you seen the price of flour?” she began, and then launched into the exact diatribe I’d delivered the week before about oil and food prices.
The conversation drifted to the “stimulus” we’re getting this [...]
Day Three
Sam’s been gone for three days now.
Sunday was a bear, as I wrote.
Monday was pretty freakin’ awful. I didn’t go to my therapy session, wasn’t sure if one was scheduled actually, but I really didn’t see the need for it. After all, therapy is supposed to be helping me deal with unresolved issues, [...]
Discretion
I know I mentioned earlier this week that one of the reasons I haven’t blogged much was because I’ve been working on a long therapy-related piece. That’s true: I’m still working on it. And it will never be published.
There’s definitely some stuff in there that needs to be worked out, and I will [...]
Framing
I’ve been slowly reading Lakoff’s “Don’t Think of An Elephant”, a book about political framing. I haven’t finished the book, and probably won’t, and so I am unprepared to discuss whether the book makes valid arguments about politics or… well, about arguing. What I’ve read so far is interesting. Discussing the idea [...]
Read More..>>Carpal or Something
Last night for no apparent reason, my right forearm seized up as if with a muscle spasm. It hurts to rotate my forearm in either direction, so much so that even after taking a prescription 600-milligram ibuprofen, I still woke up every time I rolled over last night. I took another 600 milligrams [...]
Read More..>>Opportunities and Lessons
Last week, I didn’t get as much of a chance to write about Sam-related issues as I would have liked: between practicing for a wedding and three days worth of bluegrass gigs, I only finished about half of what I wanted to write about, my interactions with Sam’s maternal grandparents and how those interactions probably [...]
Read More..>>Interactions
I wrote quite a bit last week about my emotional preparations with regard to Sam’s arrivals and departures from my life.
One of the first ways I prepare for Sam’s visit and arrival is to find out who will be driving Melissa. If it’s her boyfriend, it’s always easier: I don’t have any baggage [...]
