by ::::kbs | Mar 22, 2011 | Mourning
I don’t write about mourning issues much on this blog, which is ironic; I rebooted my life in 2010 because I was coming out of an extended, 15-year long period of malaise brought on by the deaths of my parents in the mid-1990s. I think I don’t want this...
by ::::kbs | Mar 10, 2011 | Reflections
Authoria: This is part one of the first chapter, “Circumstances”, in which I give some background on my story and what happened with my parents. I discuss in graphic detail their illnesses and deaths, so heed that warning. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Circumstances, part...
by ::::kbs | Mar 5, 2011 | Reflections
Like most women (and, these days, many men), my body image issues are EPIC. I’ve hated those issues, studied them, talked about them, yelled about them…everything you’ve done, and then some. But I was hit recently with an interesting insight that had never...
by ::::kbs | Mar 1, 2011 | Reflections
At last, the final part of this little diatribe: “Committing to something we love just because we love it opens us up to scorn as well as peer pressure to conform (i.e. not be original, unique, or creative).” We are a culture that criticizes people for...
by ::::kbs | Feb 25, 2011 | Reflections
Back to the idea of not focusing on what you hate that I posted about a couple of days ago: Here we are at treacherousness part II, “Hating something requires less energy, focus and effort than the complex discovery process of finding what we love.” Hating...
