Today must be depression day (clarification: the subject, not my mood) …here’s a great post on Follow Me Here about antidepressants, and their use. I left a (ridiculously) long comment, which follows:
In 1997, I first experienced a major depression — but didn’t recognize what had happened until I got out of it by the […]

Interesting research going on out there. While I’ve experienced depression (severe, even), it’s never quite been to the point that anything this extreme would be merited as a treatment. For all the bad rep that ECT gets, I’ve read reports of lives it’s saved.

The pacemaker-like implant has been sold since 1997 to control […]

It’s just past midnight, and I just got off the phone from the *oddest* phone call.
Let me set the stage. After this post, I did finally write back to the “match” in question. He’d provided his direct email address, so I sent my reply there. Then I waited for a […]

is not hate, according to this post at The Gates Are Open. Click through; what initially appears to be a post about current events has a much more profound message.

Some time ago, the maintenance crew dug out the area between my building and the carport so that they could install new sod. While the sod’s been in for perhaps a couple months now, they never finished cleaning up under my stairwell. A clump of dirt remained sitting on the rocks, and a […]

Rick did it again.
Each time I start to want to throw my hands up in the air and say WHY BOTHER where God is concerned, I read something like this and realize that I’m not to that point yet. Really, I doubt that I’ll ever give up on God — or at the very […]

I’m in the process of moving my non-baby blog links from Maya’s Meanderings to here, where they more accurately belong. Mommyblogs and the like will stay there.
I wanted to call attention to a new link I’m adding that isn’t a transfer — her blog is a new one I found today via Grand Rounds […]

This is a *good* match of the day.
I’ve felt a little discouraged at the utter dearth of interested/ing candidates from my venture back into online dating. While I’ve had hundreds…no, thousands of “views” of my profile, I’ve had very few people express interest, and those who have…well, they’ve not really done it for me. […]

Last month, I caught the beginning of an episode of This American Life that got me so annoyed, I turned it off. Today, while working on another project, I decided to play this one from their web archives. It bothered me just as much today, but I still listened to it.
Godless America (links […]

To add to yesterday’s post that touched on fatalism, I’ve been reading Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart off-and-on as the mood strikes me (this is a habit of mine to have 3-5 books going simultaneously). Dr. Livingston says it much more succinctly than I did:
While no one can deny the role of […]

I really should just keep my mouth shut on ones like this.
Clearing out profiles from the “who’s viewed me” page, I see this guy. He seems nice enough (though totally not my type), so I shoot him a note kindly (I think?) suggesting that he sounds like a great guy, but that he might […]

To counterbalance my post the other day about how a Christian shouldn’t be…here’s a better one about how they should be. Thanks to Steve for a reminder of how I’d like to be. I fall short, but that doesn’t mean I should ever stop trying.
There are many times that I really wonder […]

If, as you live your life, you find yourself mentally composing blog entries about it, post this exact same sentence in your weblog.
via Margi
FYI, a google search of this exact sentence turns up 332 results today. Wonder how quickly that number will grow?

Badchristian (another blog I highly recommend) said it well today. Here’s a sample:
You say that pop culture icons are our new spiritual mentors.
…you may be right. I probably would sleep better at night knowing that instead of looking up to Jerry Falwell, Joel Osteen, or whomever the next big pastor is, we’re […]

Courtesy of Layla, here’s another quiz. For many (most?) of the questions, none of the answers actually applied…I had to fake it!

You Are 51% American

Most times you are proud to be an American.
Though sometimes the good ole US of A makes you cringe
Still, you know there’s no place better suited to be your home.
You […]