So, in yesterdays’s post, I bitched about my problems with Christmas and mentioned that there was one Christmas song that I really like. I neglected to mention that over the past few years, I’ve found a few other season-related songs that I enjoy for different reasons. Some I like because they are funny, and some… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: December 2015
It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Chr–Shut Up!
I am not a big fan of Christmas, as is well known to the people nearest and dearest to me. I wrote an op-ed when I was in junior high about the crass consumerism of the holiday, and that was thirty years ago. The start to the Christmas season seems to come earlier and earlier,… Continue Reading
Taiji and Me, Part Two: Finding My Way
I have many thoughts on taiji, obviously. In my previous post, I detailed what led me to start practicing taiji and some of the benefits I’ve received from it, as well as some of my struggles with it. The Sword Form is a delicate form, despite being deadly. It’s more about getting someone’s attention with… Continue Reading
Taiji and Me: My Not-So-Meditative Journey Within
Taiji is an integral part of my life, but I rarely talk about it. I’ve thought about why that is, but I can’t come up with a definite answer. I’ve decided to blog about it instead because I find that I can order my thoughts better when I write them down. Or type them out… Continue Reading
One-Hundred Percent, Unequivocally, Proudly Pro-Choice
On Black Friday, I watched on Twitter as a shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs unfolded real-time, and while I had to leave to go to my taiji class, I knew several things immediately. I knew that the shooter was overwhelmingly likely a man, most likely a white man, that he had mental… Continue Reading
Get Your Ideology Out of My Rigidity
I want to continue with my thoughts from yesterday’s post about my eating disorders, but take this post in a slightly different direction. Several years ago, I became aware of the fat acceptance movement, and I was intrigued. As an aside, I didn’t know that it started back in 1967, and I would agree that… Continue Reading
The World of My Weight
I started a post about the latest mass shooting, but then I stopped because I don’t have it in me to address it right now. So, instead, I want to revisit an old issue that is still something I deal with on a daily basis. It stems from the doctor’s visit I mentioned in my… Continue Reading
Assessing the Depression Assessment
Ed. Note: I have a tendency to edit a post endlessly as a way to prevent myself from actually publishing said post. I’m making the conscious decision to publish posts even if I don’t think they are good enough to publish just so I can have something up every day. Therefore, some of these daily posts… Continue Reading
Daily Post December
NaNoWriMo is over, and I ‘won’ it with ease*. Writing many, many words has never been an issue with me. In fact, when I used to write for ABLC, someone coined the phrase ‘pulling a Minna’ for writing any article over 2,000 words long. That’s like a sneeze for me,** so I don’t do NaNoWriMo… Continue Reading