As I’ve mentioned before, I am a big fan of psychotherapy. Although medication has had a greater role in my successful depression treatment, psychotherapy helped me to recognize my inner demons and banish or deal with them, thereby leading to my becoming a much happier person overall, which I would assume is helpful in fighting [...]
Our friend Kate had a baby in October. I finally got around to knitting a blanket and a matching bowl for the baby and her room: They’re both knit out of Lion Brand Landscapes in Pastel Meadows. For the bowl I used my felted bowl pattern. For the blanket, I just cast on stitches on [...]
Your office desk harbors far more bacteria than your workplace restroom, and if you’re a woman, chances are your workspace has more germs than your male co-workers’, a new research report shows. Women have three to four times the number of bacteria in, on and around their desks, phones, computers, keyboards, drawers and personal items [...]
“Hi, nice to meet you. I’m an introvert.” Last night I went to a course on event planning held by UC Berkeley extension. Although it didn’t dawn on me at the time, it was apparently the perfect opportunity to network. Even the course presenter encouraged us to network during the break. At break time, I [...]
I just spent a week lying in bed, doing nothing except watching TV and reading. The laundry has piled up into mountains. (How can three people wear so many clothes? I think we have too many clothes.) We would have run out of dishes if my husband hadn’t been diligently doing them. (I think we [...]
