Have I ever mentioned that I am perhaps a bit stubborn and a bit slow to change directions? There’s an axiom from the world of commodities and stocks: Your first loss is your best loss. Which is another way of saying “don’t throw good money after bad.” That came up while hiking in the rain […]
I have to admit I am incompletely satisfied with a post I just read on “what women want in a man.” Long, discursive, and ultimately unsatisfying to me, I wondered if the author had skirted the issue. Maybe what women want is not the issue. Maybe one needs to look at what women expect or
What is a normal person? According to Collins Dictionary, “a normal person has no serious physical or mental health problems.” But it’s so much more than that. Because there are so many things in which you could be normal. Or abnormal. Then there’s the fact that the question of what is a normal person is
What I’ve been reading, generally stuff I’ve read this year, which was interesting enough to put down for future reference. And which is immediately available online: Blogs Mr Money Mustache (it’s there, but can’t be linked directly) — Who can help but be impressed when someone tells you you can retire in nine years flat, just
What is the goal of life? As in, why are we here? I know, that’s a far piece from writing about my modest misadventures of a middle aged woman. But that, what is the goal of life, is what has been coming up for me this week. I don’t know why it suddenly started to
What is it? The hiking trails at Arapaho Bend rate as “pretty amazing, considering where they’re located,” to me. Arapaho Bend is one of Fort Collins many Natural Areas. The trail loop network runs a total distance of 4 miles. These trails loop around ponds created from abandoned gravel pits. Hikers, boaters, horsemen and runners
Can you treat depression with yoga classes? The research says it works. I went and tried 4 days a week of yoga and felt … so much better. Last week I announced that instead of going to counseling I was going to go to yoga to try to treat depression. I came to this
I have decided to return to yoga with a renewed commitment. And the reason I have returned is because I have been too … well subject to too much depression. I tried to address it by going back on Buproprion, an anti-depressant prescribed me 18 months ago and which I stopped taking a few months
Does life have meaning? I used to think it was a slam dunk it did. But now in the middle of the night, as I stare at the computer, I am wondering. And then, suddenly, I am not lying: the dog, who is sitting behind me as he usually does, with no reason reaches out
Now it is Friday and the meetup hiking cabin trip is in the past. The wooden cabin covered with snow, the kitchen with pans and gadgets and dull knives and a big table in the middle with benches like in a lumber camp that sits eight, it’s history. How did it go, my friends asked
