I don’t want to get in a pissing match with you. You seem angry so let’s just take a breath.

Sitting in a quiet room. Breath awareness—conscious awareness of a simple act—is a good place to start. Good luck!

M.D. doesn’t stand for “medical deity.”

“You pick the task you want to work on, and you vow to work on it for five minutes, and five minutes only.”

Population-control awareness programs (with funding)?

Meditation can help persons (me, anyway, as a recovering person with longstanding diagnoses of PTSD and dysthymia) mediate when fight or flight is appropriate and when neither is necessary. Science tells us that hyper-vigilance isn’t good for the body or the mind.

Precisely. Meditation will, when practiced over time, slow down reactivity.

I am far freer—emotionally, physically, and intellectually—now that I’m sober than ever I was in my drinking life.

Meditate?

I too teach at a community college. I teach computer literacy to disadvantaged, un-/under-employed, and older persons, usually PoC, marginalized, and recovering vets. Right from the start, they’re at a deep disadvantage. I say we’ll learn to read (web pages) and touch-type, navigate something besides YouTube. It…

I could not agree more with you.

True story: While I fumbled a moment over the chip/no chip card reader at a big-box store last week, the cashier said to me that they (chip readers) don’t make any difference in security. Intrigued, I asked why. She said, I don’t know, I just don’t think so.

In my old place I installed cabinets that went all the way to the ceiling, Euro-style, because who needs all that dusty empty space up there? I did that because of my great Costco two-step stepladder. It opens easily, and the top step is so very roomy and secure that I stand on it with both feet. Folded, it’s skinny…

Gonna share this right now…so helpful. Still, his first few sentences make it sound like he could be making crap up (which I know he would never do). Would the butterfly in Bali analogy really stir those dodo science deniers?

Butternut squash makes an amazing bisque.

This. Thank you for saying weather is not the same as climate. I didn’t really ever think about that distinction (and obv, tho concerned about climate change, haven’t done much reading on the subject).

Multiple paranoid employees at the same CVS? Sounds about right.

That was a drunk clap.

Eww.

Huge judge-y post here: Ulta has shitty perfumes and nearly non-existent customer service.

Huge judge-y post here: Ulta has shitty perfumes and nearly non-existent customer service.