This week, I am coming to you from Pittsburgh, where I have spent the week with my husband, parent-sitting his parents while his sister is out of town. His parents are 92 and 95, and it is showing in their cognitive decline. My MIL starting misplacing her marbles first but - as is often the …
Yesterday I wrote the final words in the first draft of my book. This book is one reason that I haven’t been posting recently. (That, and a series of PT exercises which eat up prime blogging time and, well – to be honest – a serious bout of languishing...) So what is this book that …
Over the holiday break, I visited one of my oldest friends. By oldest, I mean that our friendship is the longest I have, not that she is the oldest by age. My friend and I are different in many ways. She has a scientific mind: when faced with a question, she reaches for science, for …
In a wonderful book of illustrated Katas by Zhizhong Cai, I discovered a story that has sustained me through many troubled times at work. The Doctor In this story, a doctor assigned to a medieval Chinese MASH unit patches up yet another soldier and sends him back out to fight with his unit. When the …
The season of trying to change ourselves is rapidly approaching. Changing yourself can seem hard. Sometimes everything about changing yourself can seem hard. First, you have to recognize that you need to change. Then you have to commit to changing. Only then can you figure out what you need to change to. And then you …
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