Easing pain through beauty and appreciation.
Archives for 2012
Orange
A delicious fashion color we shouldn’t forget.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Coping with Disaster
As information continues to roll in on the devastation from Hurricane Sandy, I couldn’t help but think about the magnitude of the loss that so many are facing. Loss that may hit after the initial shock of the events of this week. I cannot imagine what it would be like to lose everything – the […]
Big Storm, Big Heart?
The first thing I did when I woke this morning was check weather online in the cities where my sons attend college. Then I checked the news online, to see what damage Hurricane Sandy’s impacts continued to wreak through the night. I opened a window to access Facebook and read any messages from my boys. […]
3:30 a.m., Red Gloves, Hurricane Sandy
Dreams, worries, parenting from a distance through storm.
Sexuality in the News: My Body, Not Yours
One way or another, sexuality in the news again? You bet. “Repetitive, compulsive behavior.” This is part of the elaborate definition of sex addiction as expressed in an article appearing in Time last week. The issue at hand? Is sex addiction real, or an excuse for “bad” behavior? Considering whether or not sex addiction is […]
Legos and a Purple Sky
I am remarkably, astonishingly, uncharacteristically asleep for 15 hours – peaceful then flailing, waking only for moments then sleeping again. I am memorizing dreams of revisiting Boston and New York, and there are other places I am touching down but I cannot precisely pinpoint them. I have spent these extraordinary hours in decorating competitions alongside […]
Slapped Silly
Imagine my surprise when last evening on Anderson Cooper 360, one of my fave journalists put the final flourishes on his show by talking about getting “punched in the face” – to look younger. That is to say that Cooper’s Ridiculist described a Thai tradition which has recently made the news. It was the subject […]
Beyond Limerence, Or, Why I’m Glad I’m Not Madly in Love
Mad love, lasting love, and why I know my personal preference.
Successful Aging… Who Knew?
What do you need at 40, at 60, at 80?