Choosing a good physical therapist? It can be a challenge, depending on your access to healthcare.
Reputation Matters
Do you care what people think of you?
Curating Our Content (or Shutting Up)
Sharing online. How much, how often, and why?
Life’s Little Luxuries
Little luxuries. What we consider “luxurious” may reveal who we are.
Guile, Games, and Bluffing
Guile, game playing, bluffing. Thoughts on maneuvers to get what we want.
The Splinter
It was an accident. A dropped vase. Broken, mostly in large pieces, but glass shards covered one corner of the kitchen floor. I picked up what I could by hand, careful not to cut myself, then fetched the vacuum. We’re a household that goes barefoot, so I was thorough in cleaning every inch of floor […]
Battle Ready
Makeup: A matter of habit, self-esteem, social convention… and?
Do Contradictions Confuse You?
Contradictions… The spice of life.
Stigma
It used to be illegitimacy. Or abortion. Or divorce. Stigma was attached to actions that were overtly or tacitly unacceptable. The consequence was banishment from the fold. Being shunned by those whose approval you wanted. Whose love you needed. Some of the reasons may have shifted, but stigma remains a part of western culture. Children […]