My introduction began with a divorce. My husband was a stealth narcissist. I had no idea until one day he announced, “I owe you a lot of money.” He proceeded to tell me he kept a double set of books and hid money. I chronicle the long and involved journey of that in a book I...
Living with an addict can be a living hell. Unpredictable and dangerous, yet sometimes exciting and romantic. Never knowing when we’ll be blamed or accused. Not being able to dependably plan social events. As the addict becomes more irresponsible, we pick up the slack and do more, often ...
Cooking.My passion for cooking faded away in 2022. I didn’t have the drive or ambition to do it. I didn’t feel like eating either – which worked out well for a while until I lost too much weight. However, that spark has returned with a vengeance. I relish searching for recipes, ...
Thinking of winter leaves takes me back to more happy winter scenes: Michigan winters with lots of oak leaves hanging on amid the snow and Theodore Roosevelt Island, my refuge during the pandemic, when we all tried to hang on. I believe the leaves below are from a tiny beech tree on the...
My husband Tom is a nut about bicycles. He rides them, collects them from dumpsters, fixes them up, and gives them away. When you ask Tom how many bicycles a person should have, his answer is “N + 1,” with “N” standing for the number of bicycles you currently have and the “...
There’s ananecdotethat Woodman was asked by a friend, why she obsessively photographed herself. Her friend may have found it oddly narcissistic and simply still unusual. Because we mustn’t forget that Woodman created all of these self-portraits in the mid and late seventies – so long before...
The compact structure crams the cells so close together that they can communicate with one another and beat as one lump. For tissue engineers, however, it poses a tricky hurdle: Pack the cells too tightly and some won’t get proper nutrients; too loosely and they can’t coordinate a beat...
I was diagnosed shortly after finding my husband passed away. Many circumstances and traumatic events can cause PTSD. In this article, I want to focus on understanding its impact on the nervous… Continue reading Thoughts and Notes anxietydisorder, livingwithanxiety, ptsd, widow April 3, 2025 ...
Jess: It’s a bit of a mind bend. Clayton: Yes. So, when you have no choice, this is the way out. When you have no choice there is only one choice. The notion of fate plays no part in it. In the West we have forgone the idea of fate. It’s such a narcissistic culture tha...
To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass—seeing things in such a narrow and darkly narcissistic way that it presents a colo-rectal theology, offering no hope to anyone. ...