Generally, I am a creature of habit. I wake up and go to sleep at about the same time every day. Occasionally, that rule will bend this way and that. What helps is that I am retired and am not required to be somewhere at a specific time every day. …

What is Next? — When I first showed up for psychotherapy, I thought I’d move through it and emerge on the other side all well again. Except, that didn’t happen. At the time, I thought I was cured. Eventually, something happened to trigger me. I don’t know what it was, but I was depressed…

What We Think — Did you ever go around cursing your bad luck? Or God? Just because things are not looking up, things are not looking your way, does your potty language intrude? That’s what my mother used to call our bad language. Does it seem sometimes the world does not seem a benevolent…

What Could We Blame? — I’ve got swollen feet, and now, my legs are following. I thought I might buy a pair of support or compression socks, but I could not think of the name and referred to them as squeezem socks yesterday. Which illustrates perfectly the title I came up with for this article. …

Humor and Channeling — This might prove to be more difficult than I thought. Again, there was no thinking for this article, just the title. Actually, it is appropriate. I don’t know what happened to it. My funny bone. Really. Of course, I could read something funny. That might get me in the mood. …

Data Bases and Nested To-Do Lists — I am currently on the 9th lesson of the 24 lessons in the course I’m taking on Skillshare about how to learn Notion. It’s a build-as-you-go course, and the teacher just announced that we are in the intermediate section of the course. He said that with what we know now…

Keep It Interesting — Lately, I have been devoting more time to developing good habits. I am hoping to start each day right. So far, I’ve chosen to take a deep contemplative breath and say the words “It’s a great day” to myself. I don’t know if it is working, but I’ve been doing…

A Psychic Rule — Inspiration for the things I write comes from all sorts of places — for instance, this article. I was in the kitchen thinking about breakfast. …

What’s New? I was having a slow morning. There just wasn’t enough oomph to do anything all that productive. I decided to take a few moments off to have another cup of coffee and to read a little bit on my Kindle. The story that I’m reading hasn’t grabbed me…