Category: healing
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It’s going to be soon
But Not Broken is now available in ebook and paperback! An Angel’s Love Nicki Kenyon Awareness Ray Krawczyk Memories of the Abyss Cedar Sanderson Sometimes You Get What You Need Richard Cartwright Forward from the Past Becky Jones Requiem David Bock Domestic Disturbance Mary Hoerr Baba Yaga Fiona Grey Moments of Madness Kat Stevens The…
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April Whirlwind
The chaos is upon me. Boxes fill the living area. We hadn’t intended to start packing up the kitchen and pantry this soon, to be honest. With the ability to stage the move from apartment to house in a somewhat leisurely manner, we’d planned for… more time. But the apartment complex sent notice that tomorrow…
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Relentlessly Cheerful
Never give up, never surrender. Never let the despair drag you into the falsehood of believing there’s no hope. It’s a lie, for one thing. There is always hope, and joy, and humans are more resilient than we give them credit for. For another thing… We, speaking in the very broad human voice here, are…
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No Man is an Island…
I’ve written the last couple of days this week on the importance of social connection, love, and friendship. Love in the form of charity is a giving of oneself to others. The key to a lonely heart, opening it up as it were to human connection. This, we know from science, feeds not only…
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While I Lay Not Sleeping
While I’m writing this novella I’ve been using phrases from hymns and Bible verses as chapter headers. I wasn’t really sure why, until about halfway into it, and then I figured it out. But one of the header lines was ‘Morning comes, but also night” from Isaiah 21:12. I was contemplating that as I lay…
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Coping
I’ve been reading an excellent book on psychotherapy on my lunchbreaks, and listening to my usual podcasts at work to fill in the time. Given that lunch is only 30 min, the reading is obviously moving slower, even if I do read quickly. But a combination of Tomasz Witkowski’s acerbic take on the, ah, art…
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Bibliotherapy
Bibliotherapy Mirror-posted from According to Hoyt this morning. Cedar Sanderson A meta-analysis of the utilization of, and reading recommendations for effective bibliotherapy in a non-clinical setting. Bibliotherapy is the use of reading to improve mental health, reduce anxiety, and increase ‘mindfulness.’ Firstly, what is mindfulness? Psychology Today defines it neatly. “Mindfulness is a state of…
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Myrmidon Tears
Jonathon LaForce, poet, former Marine, father, and good man, sent me this and asked me to publish it on the blog. Thank you, sir, for your service, and for sharing this… Myrmidon Tears “Parade rest!” At once, 600 pairs of boots stamp into the grass, Palms crossing in the small of our backs. 7 months…
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Busy Exercise
It’s spring, and thoughts turn to long walks on the beach, strolls in the park, and losing the winter flab. Sadly, with my routine, and lack of beaches, I can’t do a whole lot toward the slimming part of my goals. But with the return of warmer weather, I don’t have to be stuck indoors…
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500 times
WordPress tells me this is my 500th blog post on this blog. It’s a milestone… I was thinking, again (a dangerous pasttime, I know) about this blog, and why I do it. It started out as a mommy blog, a way to share pictures and anecdotes of my family with far-flung relatives. Scattered updates, and…
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Correlations and Causations
I’m postponing the final post of the seduction series until tomorrow. I’m still recovering from a migraine, and the brain, while no longer attempting to escape my skull, is having what I call a rebound effect. It’s not pleasant, but it could be worse. I was thinking, though, about the correlations between creativity and various…
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Review: The Dark Lady
Pam Uphoff has created an excellent SF series in the Wine of the Gods, starting with Outcast and Gods. Although it is science fiction, it has a fantasy feel, as the genetically engineered protagonists can manipulate the universe around them in a way that looks like magic. I just recently read the latest, The Dark…