More Than Four Sides

Category: blogging

  • Offending those we love…

    I am cautious about what I post here.  For one, I am aware that it’s available to a wide variety of folks who are connected to me either directly or indirectly.  And, it’s mostly a personal blog, but could be read by my patients, my students, and my colleagues.  So, I am always thinking about…

  • Poverty, and other forms of ill-fate

    I’ve been thinking a lot about being poor, since reading the post that struck me as so heartless yesterday. My parents were both educated, intelligent and talented, but neither of them lived up to their potential. As a result, my sister and I grew up with the support of MediCal (California’s version of Medicaid –…

  • Digging your way out of the pit of despair

    I’m reblogging this, not because I agree with it, but because it has touched a nerve that is always raw for me, both on a personal level and on a professional level, and I intend to expand on that thought tonight…but, I didn’t want to lose my thought. The first paragraph is highly offensive (to…

  • 29/30 = 97% … not perfection

    I’m bummed. Yes, I am a perfectionist. No, I didn’t actually expect to be able to blog 30 days straight. But, having managed 29 days, I really thought I had it in the bag, and then Friday, Nov 30, the last day of NaBloPoMo for November 2012, was a crazy day, and I just couldn’t…

  • Blown away thinking about Vulnerability

    Being away for a week, I had gotten behind on my podcast listening, so, this morning, during my commute, I out on the most recent broadcast of On Being with Krista Tippett, and heard the most amazing interview with Brene Brown: http://www.onbeing.org/blog/bren%C3%A9-brown-leaning-our-vulnerability-video/4903 There were so many points that were made that really resonated with me,…

  • Vacation Angst

    I’ve written here before how much taking a vacation gives me fits of anxiety. We didn’t take a proper vacation this past summer.  We did spend a lovely 4 days in Florida in June joining the celebration of our niece’s graduation from high school, and then we spent another weekend at a family camp in…

  • Father’s expectations…Son’s reality

    My dad left his home in Sri Lanka to travel across the seas to the great New York City, to pursue a graduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Columbia University. I wish I had the photos in my hand of his departure from Sri Lanka – I saw them at my aunt’s home more than…

  • On tenterhooks…

    I woke up this morning in a state of high anxiety. I launched Facebook, and the first thing I saw was a post from MoveOn.org saying “The day is finally here. How are you feeling? Go!” and the comments were exactly my feelings – about half of them hopeful, and the other half anxious and…

  • Last day of the election season

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2012/map/calc.html#states=lrGmp5qGBlvGmqBlKp It’ll all be over tomorrow – I hope! The US will finally go to the polls, and sometime tomorrow night, we will finally know whether Barack Obama will stay in office for four more years, or we’ll have Mitt Romney in the White House, dismantling the health care reform that so resembles what he…

  • Aaaaahhhh – feels so good!

    I grew up swimming. It’s my favorite physical activity. I feel at home in the water. I took swim lessons every summer, in California, from the time I was about 6 years old. I tried out synchronized swimming (I still like to do that thing where you paddle your hands under the water at your…