• Depression - Goals - Ramblings

    Gratitude vs. Guilt

    A couple of years back a friend gave me a mason jar with pen and pad of paper for Christmas. The jar was to capture the highlights of the year, so at the turn of the next year, I could go back and see the successes I’d had. This year…

  • Goals - Library - Ramblings - Writing

    Self evaluation and review

    I work within the library system at the University of Florida. In effort to increase my professional development for my role there, I have been taking the Supervisory Challenge courses at UF (that is where the values survey that vexed me came from). In addition, I applied, and was accepted…

  • Fiction - Goals - Library - Writing

    Writing To-Do List

    A few weeks ago I was going through containers in my office, and I decided to pull out all of my journals, morning pages and writing notebooks.  When I was done, I was surrounded by no fewer than 40 various sized notebooks, plus another 30 or so “fit in your…

  • Goals - Writing

    Daruma Doll

    A while back a friend of mine gave me a Daruma doll he picked up on his most recent trip to Japan. When I received it, the eyes were blank. Following what my friend told me, I set a wish/goal that I wanted to achieve as I filled in one…

  • Depression - Goals - Writing

    Points System

    I have been struggling lately to use my time to do the things that I aspire to do with my time.  Instead I squander my time on the enjoyable activities (e.g. binge watching Veronica Mars) because, dang it, I deserve to pamper myself. But if you do it all the…