This post was inspired -- if that's the word; I have my doubts -- by a post by @ysabetwordsmith titled Self-Awareness Question: Boundaries. It's one of an ongoing series of questions taken from a list of 75 Questions for Cultivating Self-Awareness on the site positively present. (The ( Read more... )

Yeah; I missed yesterday. Yesterday was a rough week. Today was, arguably, worse, but I handled it better. Or have so far; I think I'm just about out of energy now (9:30pm, roughly). Go figure. Yesterday N had to come out and order me to bed; I was becoming incoherent.
Let's see. N came back sick from OVFF, and apparently ( Read more... )

Good grief! I shouldn't be surprised -- this happens every time I ( Read more... )

... what it says about me that I never realized that the last verse of Gentle Arms Of Eden is (or might be construed as being) addressed to a human lover rather than metaphorically to the Goddess.

I didn't see it until pocketnaomi wrote an intro for our ( Read more... )

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A happy Valentine's Day to all my friends.

I especially want to wish a happy Valentine's day to my sister-of-choice ( Read more... )

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ysabetwordsmith has a good post titled Loneliness and Fraying Social Fabric, that's a followup to haikujaguar's recent post on loneliness and how it spreads. Lots of good stuff there, and even more in the comments.

She makes some good suggestions. "Restore our support of people who are ( Read more... )

I just realized, while helping Colleen navigate around an unfamiliar part ( Read more... )

A somewhat delayed insight from a comment Naomi made to me in IM when I told her that I didn't have a social life in high school: all this time I've been defining "social life" in a way that focussed on dating and other activities where the point was to have or find a romantic partner.

I've also been very shy, for as long as I can ( Read more... )