So I'm sitting here at Panera writing. Just looked out the window in time to see a little old white-haired lady go zooming by at high speed down the sidewalk on one of those motorized chair things, which was a very cool metallic red. My first thought, "May that be me when I'm 99." In Pacifica (my depth psychology grad school) terms, the metaphor of ( Read more... )

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I've been sitting on this for quite some time, but everything has finally come together and all systems are go ( Read more... )

Got up, turned on the TV, opened the laptop, got out my phone to check email ( Read more... )

Got to see a PA yesterday, who was being assisted by a very pregnant intern. I do in fact have tendonitis in my left elbow-- probably from playing too much Words With Friends. I wish I was joking, but I'm not. Need to find a more ergonomic place to sit ( Read more... )

As part of my Buddhist practice, I've been trying to wean myself off meat, not easy for this life long omnivore. Recently I became an aspirant to Thich Nhat Hanh's Order of Interbeing and as part of my commitment I decided to be more mindful of what I was eating and alternate "meat days" with "no meat days," a middle way approach. That was going ( Read more... )

The past two months have been a blur of travel and illness. So here I am, less than a month before Christmas, trying to get my life back in order ( Read more... )

We had quite an adventure with Miss Z Saturday night. She got hold of a plastic bottle of aspirin around 10 pm and we made the wild dash to the veterinary ER to get her stomach cleaned out. They gave her ipacac and charcoal, which proved to be a tragic combination for our car upholstery, my feet, various patches of carpet around the house ( Read more... )

I have spent the weekend helping son #2 set up his first solo apartment. He's got a good job, found a nice place in the former carriage house of the most ornate pink mansion I have ever seen, but he's never had a place on his own, without roommates. It's the first place that's solely his, a home of his own making. I remember my first solo place. ( Read more... )

Happy New Year's Eve, folks. Tonight the event will be marked in typical fashion at Casa Flewelling-- games, champagne, and trying to stay awake until midnight ( Read more... )