Yesterday morning I walked through a rainstorm to the gym we just joined---a Planet Fitness decorated in garish purple-and-mustard, and plastered with heartening signs proclaiming it a "No-Judgement Zone." I owned a StairMaster in my twenties, but my forties-self clearly needs some shaping-up because that thing was kicking my butt after six minutes. So I thought I'd try … Continue reading Sea Legs & Side Effects
Tag: Mental Health
What Paper Plates are For
There's a TV ad for an antidepressant that features a paper plate on a popsicle-stick handle with a smiley face sketched on it... Various people are holding it up in front of their faces, which (behind the paper-plate-smiles) are unhappy, disengaged, or entirely expressionless. That ad speaks not only to the experience of Depression, but also to … Continue reading What Paper Plates are For
Taking Out the Trash
This week I volunteered to help out a church acquaintance with some cleaning and reorganizing of her house. She's a single mom with numerous health problems and two active young boys, and she babysits an infant who's now mobile enough to require baby-proofing of the house---and she was finding the project overwhelming. I won't lie: I found the project … Continue reading Taking Out the Trash
How to Save Hundreds on Prescriptions (I don’t care if I sound like a bad TV ad… everyone should know about this!)
We're kind of conditioned to believe that something "too good" can't actually be true... So when I happen on something TRUE that's awesome... Well, I just have to share it! I know I'm not alone in relying on some prescriptions that are critical to my health (mental and otherwise), and I know I'm not alone … Continue reading How to Save Hundreds on Prescriptions (I don’t care if I sound like a bad TV ad… everyone should know about this!)
2017: A Year for Reading Rihla
Boise Idaho is bearing up under record-breaking conditions this week. We have more snow on the ground than EVER. (Well, at least the "ever" that dates from 1875 when someone started measuring.) We have wind-chill warnings for -25F and more snow on the way, possibly to be followed next week by rain, of all things, … Continue reading 2017: A Year for Reading Rihla
When You Wait till You’re Married (List#3)
In company with dinosaurs and dodos, we have to list the wait-till-you're-married man as extinct, do we not? I honestly believed so, at least as it applies to this country and culture... but I'm here to report that the subspecies is not defunct. I met Jon last year. And I married him this February. And then we started our life of … Continue reading When You Wait till You’re Married (List#3)
Put it on a T-Shirt: Mental Health Edition (List#2)
Continuing my Weird Lists project... If you know what's funny about these, you probably have OCD, or ADD, or ... maybe you live with someone who does! Yesterday my psych-doc seemed inclined to add A.D.D. to the alphabet-soup of my Mental Health Diagnoses... And if I'd had any doubts, I think I have my confirmation in … Continue reading Put it on a T-Shirt: Mental Health Edition (List#2)
Kana's Chronicles 