This is a self-care post for people dealing with depression or anxiety. As I’ve mentioned before, I dealt with life-threatening depression several years ago. I learned a lot and have been lucky enough to have happiness as a default setting for a long time now. With mental health matters, the same things don’t work for everybody! However, maybe something that’s worked for me
Category: Semi-Charmed Life
I’ve written about this before, but one of the most widespread misconceptions in writing is the idea that you become successful by focusing on your weaknesses. By identifying every single thing we do wrong and correcting it, we’ll be perfect at writing! Right? Most writing workshops and critique groups operate from this point of view. Career development and performance reviews at
Last week I wrote about how much my online friends have meant to me over the years, and I gave a shoutout to the now-defunct site 43Things. One of the friends I made on 43T, a foodie and rescue dog enthusiast, introduced me to the concept of Clean Slate Monday. (Thanks, John!) Clean Slate Monday is a way of embracing
Earlier this month, I opened up Facebook to see a post from my friend Rebekah about what a wonderful person Amy had been. Past tense. She had died. “No, no, no,” I thought. “This isn’t Amy S., right?” It sounded like it was describing the Amy I knew, but I thought maybe it was a different Amy, one that Rebekah
I’ve always loved stories about amnesia. The Jason Bourne movies are some of my all-time favorites, and the only show I watch besides Supernatural is Blindspot, whose main character is slowly regaining a few of her long-term memories. When I read the book Beware the Wild last month, I was fascinated by the way that characters’ memories were replaced with
Hey everyone, happy Friday! Here’s one of those open threads where you can answer a question, or just tell us what’s on your mind or how your week went. This post contains a tiny brag, but I think that’s okay, because you’re going to get to brag, too. The best thing that happened to me this week was that I found
One of my goals on my list of 101 Life Goals is to do a random act of kindness every week for a year. I keep sticking with it for a while, and then a week rolls around and I forget to do something, and then I have to start all over again. It’s like a factory going back to