Hey all, Just popping on to say that I just finished my summer semester and I am so relieved. That was really intense! I am questioning my decision to go back to school. Sometimes I am sure it’s the right thing and sometimes I am sure it’s not. We shall see how the fall semester goes. How is your …
Hello, all. A little post about something comforting. This Canadian cottage is so happy. It reminds me of summers past and it’s reminiscent of The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery. One of the items on my bucket list is to own a cottage by a lake one day. One day! “Moonlight and the murmur of pines blended together …
It’s hard for me to believe I’m voluntarily writing yet another midterm paper when I just finished school five minutes ago, but here we are. I can’t seem to stay away. Social work is a unique profession within the broader mental health field in that it primarily focuses on the person within their environment and on addressing broader social …
I’m back at work in person one day a week, and I’m fortunate enough to have an office on a really high floor in a building in Chelsea. I face my office window most of the day and watch helicopters circle above the Hudson River. I watch seagulls sail by and imagine what it would be like to fly over …
A few months ago I took a poetry therapy workshop where we did a number of exercises based on various poems. We read the following excerpt from “In Blackwater Woods,” by Mary Oliver: “…To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your …
An itty bitty studio apartment is for sale(!) in my neighborhood and because I can technically afford to buy it on my own I am diving headlong into a daydream of buying it and making it mine. You may know by now that I have a fondness for little things, and a studio apartment is like the grown-up-in-the-city version of …
Hi, all. I hope you had a wonderful Y”T, or at least an okay one. I did b”H (have a wonderful one) because I have such cute little people in my life that I finally got to see! What’s going on in your life right now? Here’s my roundup: Working full-time as a social worker for a national …
If you go to an art museum this Chol Hamoed, here is an article to read before you go. (I am a fan of art museum therapy as a thing.) You can buy one or two postcards at the gift shop and save them for after Y”T when you can journal, and write about them. Ekphrastic writing is writing …
After writing this bucket list post, I continued to give a lot of thought to what I want out of life. I realized I can attain almost every item on the list on my own (with a lot of work and maybe some out-of-the-box thinking). I reflected that as much as I want to be married, I can’t control that …
I just had to share the link to this TED Talk with Barbara Sher (author of Refuse to Choose!, among other books, mentioned here). In this speech, she describes the role of virtual strangers in helping us achieve our dreams. So good. Barbara passed away in 2020, or I would have totally tried to meet her in person after watching …
