Beautiful World

I am a hoarder. Not in the normal sense of the word-- I hate clutter and I don't collect things. I routinely sort and purge my belongi...

Therapist sent me an email today. Part of the email was this sentence, "What I want you to know is that you have inspired me with the w...

I have been blogging more than eight years. This blog, Beautiful World, is and extension of another blog, Magical World, which I began in Ma...

I got home from New York to find a letter and five phone messages letting me know that my mammogram screening showed a problem and I needed ...

I've been in New York visiting family for the past week. It's been about eight years since I was last here. Tabitha and I are stayin...

Sometimes I want to scribble on a blog post. There are drawbacks to not writing with a pen or pencil. By the time I import the picture o...

There was a time when I used to judge people who were: 1. overweight 2. jobless 3. in chronic pain or fatigue (I called it "hypochon...

Okay. I can't stand it anymore. I was going to remain utterly silent about my views concerning misogyny and accepted mormnorm views of ...

I once knew a person who dealt with bi-polar disorder. He would take his medication religiously for awhile, then go off it. He said it was b...

When the process is happening, I always wonder if I'll be successful, or if I'm doing the right thing, or if, when I'm finished,...

When I was growing up, some famous person used to say, "Eat right and exercise every day." I'm guessing it was on a television...

Physical movement saves me. I have no background in a health field of any kind. All I know is that if I run, I feel better for the rest of t...

I don't want to have PTSD for the rest of my life. There. I said it. There was a time, when I had not yet been beaten repeatedly b...

I shared my last post on Facebook. Sometimes I do things just to see what will happen to me if I do. The Facebook thing may have been a mist...

I would like to write something profound and patriotic to commemorate this day. However, I am neither profound, nor ardently patriotic--alth...

A few months ago I noticed that there were a number of things in my life that made me unhappy--and I was holding onto them with all my stren...

Today's theory class (remember, consisting of all Middle School aged BOYS) finished 20 minutes early. They listen--and do the work--it s...

Four months ago I signed out of my chat program and have not signed in since. I'm unsure exactly what motivated me, but I think it had s...