Today I’m going back to therapy for the first time since July of last year. I’m really looking forward to it. * Recently I thought of an old college schoolmate. When I was 20, I was struggling in a toxic
Mini Blog Update: New Icon
Brutus the wall mounted staghorn fern is now the avatar or indeed mascot of this here little thang. Years ago when Amanda first started this blog, her chosen icon was this: …which I think summed her up really
Poetry Ptuesday: Late October by Maya Angelou
Carefully the leaves of autumn sprinkle down the tinny sound of little dyings and skies sated of ruddy sunsets or roseate dawns roil ceaselessly in cobweb greys and turn to black for comfort. Only lovers see the fall a
A Series of Efforts
Coming back here after significant time away compels me to begin again by reviewing my output up until the recent lapse. First, I fell into some familiar bad habits from when I first took over in early 2017. I relied
Excerpt from Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
In 1908, A Harvard philosopher named Josiah Royce wrote a book with the title The Philosophy of Loyalty. Royce was not concerned with the trials of aging. But he was concerned with a puzzle that is fundamental to anyone contemplating