Sometimes you have to say what’s the point? Shrug. Move on. There’s really no point in trying to convince the unconvinceable. Did I just make up a word? Some people just want a target. Some people just want to hate somebody. They are filled with undirected anger. And, […]
There are some people, that regardless of how crappy of a person they are, no one holds them accountable. They are not told to stop. They are are allowed to treat others horribly while they gloat with some odd sense of joy. It’s as if their joy increases […]
Anyone who knows me not even well, knows my son is everything. I’m enormously proud of him. And, often I’m in awe of him. It was a very hard pregnancy. A quick labor. And, a parenting delight. Well, he has now entered his teenage years. This, we’ll see […]
A long time ago, although not super long ago, I was a tween who needed eyeglasses. I was a poor child so we needed financial help getting me glasses. We got such assistance and I happily wen to get a new pair of eye glasses. I was […]
My son had looked forward to San Francisco last year. He definitely missed New York. However, he noted upon landing in San Francisco the first time, that it was beautiful and the water was so clean. I thought he was throwing shade at New York and had […]
My playground heartbreak It had to happen. It just did because things are what they are. My son is an extremely happy child. Everyone notes that about him from random strangers in Japan, to his doctor, to his school principal. He is after all “the mayor.” We sit […]
Everyone has a year-end retrospective. Let’s join that bandwagon. Here is a retrospective on some of the events and studies that highlighted the psychological, scientific and health context of the times. Some events went viral (Item number 1); some studies went relatively unnoticed (as most research articles do). […]
In my suburban block, we are now starting to shield ourselves. We are putting up curtains where before we had none. See the back of our houses face a forest. Only deer, raccoons, chipmunks, bluejays and rabbits tend to frequent our yards. Until now, again. See, a mentally […]
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