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…
Fence-Sitting
Do you fence-sit? Wait for someone else to make the first move? Or can’t decide between two or more choices? Or too overwhelmed with everything that’s going on in your life that you simply can’t focus on this right now – so you don’t? These…
Going for the next big thing
Four years ago, I got this great idea about putting together something that laid out all the parts of how stress impacts us, and all the ways we could turn that around. I was consumed by it, spending all my waking (and some dreaming) hours…
