I finally managed to sort and put away one of the "Doom Piles" on my desk, today!

The trouble with embracing "labels" is that we are far more complex than a single canned definition.

I really prefer peace and quiet over noise and excitement... and it's even a cultural thing.

The problem with "happy Scandinavians" is that happiness tends to be highly individualized.

Healing childhood wounds and trauma can be a painful and angering process!

Just having an afternoon where cloudwatching seemed more relevant than doing anything work related!

Sometimes the eternal focus on maximizing profit can be really destructive...

I overheard several people having conversations about packing up and permanently leaving the USA for foreign shores.

The challenge inherent in the idea of "living authentically" is that the world is not structured to support authenticity

Whenever I get overwhelmed by doom and gloomy online, I step away and do something really "analog!"

Product marketing seems to make a LOT of assumptions about me that just aren't true!

Somebody recently asserted that my having empathy meant I was a hairy liberal!

Offers for free products sound great... but are they REALLY?

In which I explore and think out loud about the REALITY of a $5,000 "stimulus check" in the USA.

Much of the time, novelty and innovation is NOT the best road to success!

It's weird how other people claim to be more expert about your illness than YOU are!

What if the reason so many people feel short-changed by life is actually due to unrealistic expectations?

On choosing to be grateful for what already IS, rather than complaining about what ISN'T.

One of the things I learned as a child — out of necessity — was to be very VERY quiet!

Lately, I have been using Facebook more and it's a complete and total clown show!