Thanks to this post by @elf, we have a fascinating article: What if emotions aren’t universal but specific to each culture? | Aeon Essays. Apparently recent research contradicts the widely-held theory -- the article calls it the Basic Emotion Theory -- that a small number of "basic emotions" are ( Read more... )

I have no idea how to summarize this week. None.
Apparently I have a 35-year-old son. How the fsck did that happen? (I know, one day at a time. That's not helpful.)
Colleen had a (video) gastroenterology appointment Wednesday. The doctor ( Read more... )

Those of you who have been tracking my "done since" posts way too closely may recall that in the middle of June I signed up for online therapy on a site called 7cups.com (short for 7 Cups of Tea). Since then, in addition to chatting from time to time with my therapist, I've been spending a lot of time on the ( Read more... )

I mentioned rubber ducks in yesterday's Thankful Thursday. Here, lightly edited, is something I wrote on 7Cups.com, inspired by Rubber Duck Debugging - Debugging software with a rubber ducky:
Well, there are two different kinds of problems. There are the problems ( Read more... )

Please excuse me -- this is going to be a bit round-about, although I do expect to get to a point eventually. Not necessarily the point.
There are two different things going on. The first is that I recently joined a site called 7cups.com, where ( Read more... )

My doctor said I appear to be in good health. My therapist said I appear to be handling the stress well. And Group Health in Washington appears to be affiliated in some way with Kaiser, so hopefully we'll be able to use them.

And I took a walk (somewhat short because it was starting to rain, but pleasant), and brought a lot of ( Read more... )

Today I have been reading about Emotional Intelligence, at a site I found while looking up alexithymia, which is basically the opposite, and is a condition I already knew I have.

I think it probably explains a number of things about me, including the ( Read more... )

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