I’m ashamed to be an American today. Maher Arar: statement CBC News Online | November 4, 2003 The following statement was read by Maher Arar in Ottawa on November 4, 2003, less than one month after being released from prison…
PDA Pain
Grrr. I have to ship my PDA to Palm again. I’m having to hold it in the cradle for it to sync—otherwise the connection just isn’t solid enough. I tried two different cradles, so it is the PDA, not the…
Irrational Inherited Beliefs
I started thinking about shoulds after doing some reading about Rational Emotive Therapy and irrational beliefs. This first one is the irrational belief that is most difficult for me to shake.
Shoulds
What are your shoulds? What are the rules that you inherited? If you’ve discarded inherited shoulds what did you replace them with? How did you arrive at those guidelines for yourself? I’ll share my shoulds in a later post, but…
KingJames’ Birthday
Happy Birthday king_james!
LeDuck’s Birthday
Happy Birthday leduck!
Med Bags
I made up the little Ziplock bags with my meds again. This time I split the supplements up so I don’t have to deal with them all at breakfast (yuck). Now I’m trying to figure out where to put the…
Tuesday Toodling
Well, I got lots done today. Sorta. I marked a lot of things off my to-do list, but they weren’t really thing-things, if that makes any sense. I took care of stuff like a LOT of phone calls, and actually…
Learning & Shopping & Stuff
She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. –Zelda Fitzgerald I’ve been truly reading Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain: A Survival Manual instead of just referring to bits here and there.…
Peretsky QotD
Silence does not mean consent. Silence means death. When we have something to say and we are afraid to speak, or forbidden to speak, we feel as though we’ve been walled into a closet. –From Writing in an Age of…