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When the Best Boss in the World Quits

Okay, so I’m suitably devastated in a very self-centered way. My boss, whose name shall remain a mystery, announced he is leaving for greener pastures.
I could not be more happy for him. He has been underappreciated for a long time, and it has deeply affected his personal happiness. He is a man of unusual insight, […]

Speech, Language, Development, Biology, and Why This World Makes No Sense

My son’s psychiatrist is going out of business (I guess you have to say “closing her practice”) because she can get paid only 37% of the time from the insurance companies. She is a developmental pediatrician AND a child psychiatrist so charges health insurance as a primary care physician. I like that mental health treatment […]

Other

There’s a place where others live, but I’ve never been there. They seem to know themselves, create a destiny, assume goals, attain them, and all without doubt.
They know their values are their values. They don’t question whether they simply mimic the values they’ve been raised with. They don’t worry whether what they believe is […]

The Church I’m Looking For

There was an AA meeting in the West Village in lower Manhattan called “Midnight.” Those who were regulars called it “Midnight Madness.” Meetings began at 8 pm every day, and went through until 3 am. There were also some mid-day meetings there, mostly specialty meetings for HIV positive folks, or just women, or just gay […]

Metaphorical Lawnmowing

For the better part of my adult life — well all of it, really — my personal annual rhythms have gone counter to those of the world-at-large. There were years of working all-nighters, and all weekenders, for school. Like, on a bright sunny Saturday morning, I’d be riding on the subway to go to Canal […]

Lowball Bid or BUY IT NOW???

Lowe’s Home Improvement stores recently felt obligated to issue an apology. They called the artificial Christmas trees in their catalogues “Family Trees.” This caused outrage by folks who argue to Keep Christ in Christmas. I remember the refrain Keep Christ in Christmas from my childhood. Then, it was based in using the term “Xmas.” I […]

Bonsai

I hate to indulge myself in feeling old pain. I’ve been pushing things down for a while, and some of it is coming out sideways. I hauled off on my husband a couple of nights ago. I’m angry a lot, and it’s leaking out of me at the most unexpected times.
There are so many schools […]

Christmas Looms as Blake Becomes Brand-Aware

There is a very big reason why I don’t like Blake watching Nickelodeon. He has zero sales resistance. He has watched only DVDs, Disney Channel and PBS Kids for most of his life. But, he’s starting to outgrow the Disney Channel morning shows. Yesterday, he asked to watch Sponge Bob.
I got no problem with Sponge […]

Moving On

We have moved, hence my silence with blogging. Somehow packing, unpacking, getting Blake re-adjusted, unpacking, cleaning, etc. can take up a lot of time. My brain shuts down when I’m doing these mechanical things. But now, it’s waking up.
We didn’t thoroughly move out of our apartment. That is, we left some stuff behind due to […]

The Theory of Everything, and Why I Can’t Sustain a Professional Blog

I’m someone with few boundaries, which is probably not a good thing on a social level. However, my boundarilessness (word? why not!) manifests sometimes in being able to make connections among things that seem disparate. Some folks I work with would call that “alchemy” and simple mathematics would then say that if I can make […]