Courtesy of Swami Uptown:
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
– Mother Teresa

I just watched most of a documentary on the History Channel called “Days that Shook the World.” As you’d expect, this episode focused on the bombing of Hiroshima.
I’ve never spent much time thinking about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those cities were just names in a history book, and the dates were just another annoying […]

Rick popped in from vacation to post I Hear Voices.

Do you hear voices?
I am on vacation and have taken some time away from blogging to visit relatives but thought I stick my head in blogworld to say hello.
It is interesting spending time with family and old friends for I hear the echo from the voices […]

I did it. I have a lunch date tomorrow.
The New Guy (NG) sent me a wink on match on Saturday night, and after I read his profile, I was interested enough that I shot him a short note thanking him for the wink, but warning that if he wanted to connect, it’d have to […]

I’ve said before that learning the concept of healthy boundaries really had an impact on me. Seriously, it’s such a simple concept, yet it’s one that can have life-changing effects.
A friend of mine who asks my advice on a semi-regular basis has no concept of healthy boundaries. He continually asks me for advice […]

Today kind of sneaked up on me. I feel as though I should have something deep and moving to post in honor of a birthday, but you know…I just don’t.
Maybe that, in and of itself, says a lot. This year, my birthday just didn’t really seem like a particularly important event to me […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 have photos to post from today’s hike (on the other blog), but for now, I just need to put a few thoughts on “paper,” so to speak.
I’m lonely.
Part 1: Friends
It’s not that I don’t have people in my life. I have a “mommy group” that I participate in regularly, and have found a […]

Maya and I made a quick trip to BRU earlier. As usual, we encountered a pre-school-aged child who saw Maya and exclaimed, “Look! A baby!” This particular little girl was stunning, the daughter of a white AF officer (who was in uniform, holding her) dad and an Asian mom (obviously expecting child #2).
I […]

post transfered from an older blog — I will add these from time to time
My counselor recommended the book, “Boundaries,” by Cloud and Townsend to me last week, and I picked up a copy at the library.
This is tying together many of the questions that I’ve had about my own life, and many of […]