My grandmother’s quilt
I’ve spent the last month of evenings re-sewing the quilt my grandmother gave me when I was in my 20’s. She’d given a quilt she’d made herself to each of her granddaughters that year. It was a patchwork of all the scraps she’d saved, many…
Managing your time sanely
When I was a systems analyst, many years ago, I was on call a lot, and could end up working from my home computer at 4am several nights in a row. I thought I loved this, until I ended up in emerg with something that…
Change is constant
The old sort-of joke that nothing is certain except death and taxes – first said by Benjamin Franklin – isn’t really true. It only seems true and makes us groan. But there is one thing that’s certain, and that’s change. Change is a function of…
Catastrophe living
Running from one near-catastrophe to another, doing nothing but putting out fires. It’s the way some businesses try to operate, and some people. I lived that way for years, until my body gave out and I was – very thankfully – forced to find a…
Impeccability and anxiety
What does it mean to have impeccability? I had heard a friend use this word “impeccable”, found I wasn’t clear on what it meant, and looked it up. It means: behaving, performing, or appearing in accordance with the highest standards of propriety; of being faultless.…
