better left unsaid

Primum non nocere I’ve made the choice to only write here when I’m feeling upbeat, or at least not feeling down. I think I have dwelled enough on the negative, on the bad choices I have made, and writing about these topics isn’t helping solve anything, so it is best to just let them go, […]

a little guilt’s good for you, but this is ridiculous

Ah, here is one that I’ll be working on for a while. Forever, maybe. The Big One: Guilt. The Dalai Lama says this: ‘Guilt, as experienced in Western culture, is connected with hopelessness and discouragement and is past-oriented. Genuine remorse, however, is a healthy state of mind – it is future-oriented, connected with hope, and […]

Cooking for one

I’m learning how to manage my own kitchen!  LOL. I will say it is so very tempting to just eat out, or to eat lots of easy processed foods.  This is at odds with my efforts to be a more healthy person, to lose weight, to actually (gasp) live past fifty. So while I have […]