• Depression - Ramblings

    Values revisited

    Back in August I wrote about Values and Depression, and how I was having problems with an exercise in one of my training classes, wherein I was supposed to look at a list of values, and pick the 5 values that I felt made up my core values. Well, I…

  • Goals

    Thursday 38 Things update – 2

    On my birthday I decided to do one new thing (or revisit one thing I enjoyed but haven’t done in a while) for each of my 38 years. (Original Post Here). Here is an update on some of the items I have done: N/A Items I have made progress on:…

  • Goals

    Thursday 38 Things Update

    On my birthday I decided to do one new thing (or revisit one thing I enjoyed but haven’t done in a while) for each of my 38 years. (Original Post Here). Here is an update on some of the items I have done: Make a painting (done earlier in January)…

  • Goals - Writing

    A Month of Letters

    As one of the 38 thingsĀ I am challenging myself to do this year, I have selected to participate in A Month of Letters, where the goal is to send out something via snail mail every day that the USPS post runs. In advance of this I have purchased some blank…

  • Goals - Life - Ramblings

    38 things

    Well, it has happened again. It’s my birthday, and I had to try to decide what I wanted to post. A reflection on the past year? A wish list for the upcoming year? Right now I am participating in a program called “23 Mobile Things” through NEFLIN (Northeast Florida Library…

  • Depression

    Depression and Empathy

    One thing I hate about my depression: it breaks my empathy. This is hard for me because I care about the people in my life, and what is going on with them. I care to the point where I had to make a conscious effort a few years ago to…

  • Goals - Ramblings - Writing

    Writing ideas 2015

    Someone in my extended writing tribe started a blog to track his writing projects for the year using mountain climbing as a metaphor. I thought it was a neat idea, and the part where he identified the projects he was going to work on to reach his particular word counts/…

  • Goals - Ramblings

    Personal Vision Statement – a first draft

    For the Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute (SSLLI), our homework for the next session is to create a personal vision statement, and mission statement. While I am still working on refining my professional statements, I also took the opportunity to take the long view of myself in my personal life.…

  • 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…

  • Depression - Ramblings

    with eyes averted

    i’ve noticed something in myself the past several days i am finding it difficult to keep eye contact with (or even looking at the face of) the people i am talking to i’ve noticed i’m doing it not only with the in-person interactions i have engaged in, but also in…