Today, I...

• Got up at a reasonable hour (for me) ahead of the arrival of my body doublin' pal Gail!
  
• Cleaned up, sorted, put away, or recycled a pile of crap while socializing with Gail
  
• Read some comics I had unearthed & was desperately seeking
  
• Figured out how to delete empty notebooks from Evernote (after figuring out how to add notes to notebooks ( Read more... )

Just wanted to jot down a couple of thoughts on things I suspect are either broken in my head or related to the brokenness:

( A list... )

I've been thinking a bit about the origins of my anxiety (and, by extension, my depression ( Read more... )

I was thinking that, if you reduce your enemy (or opponent) to a single dimension (evil, greedy, cruel) you not only miss his other dimensions (which make him human and understandable) but you also allow him to create the version of himself that lives in your mind ( Read more... )

A quote in a book I'm working on:

For most whites, most of the time, to think or speak about race is to think or speak about people of color, or perhaps, at time, to reflect on oneself (or other whites) in relation to people of color. But we tend not to think of ourselves or our racial cohort as racially distinctive. Whites' 'consciousness' of ( Read more... )

In my ongoing quest to untwist my brain enough to have a happy life, I've noticed over the years that one of the mantras in my head when I get stressed is "I CAN'T THINK! I NEED TIME TO THINK ( Read more... )

If you've been trying to reach me lately, I've been out of it ( Read more... )

This started out life as a comment in a locked journal, but I think I want to talk about it ( more... )

This is one of those "did I miss it? am I an alien?" questions ( Read more... )

Ah ha!

I finally remembered what I wanted to say at the SAME TIME I am sitting in front of my computer.

Back in this entry (on 6 November 2008), I talked about swearing as shorthand communication and some of you disagreed ( Read more... )