The Disquieting Damozel

"Timor Mortis Conturbat Me" (Reprise)

2007-12-31T04:18:00-05:00

The one thing about growing older is that you reach a point where you realize that every day brings you closer to losing someone you love----a parent, a friend, a pet, a spouse. This is of course...

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Still Here, Still Working Full-Time on the Political Blog

2007-11-30T11:23:51-05:00

I really DO intend to begin blogging about my own life again. But getting Buck Naked Politics up and running (and with a 200+ technorati ranking) and still working full-time has absorbed all my...

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Thursday 13 #5. 13 Things I've Learned About Panic Attacks.

2007-04-26T00:00:33-04:00

IF YOU LEAVE A COMMENT HERE OR ON THE HOMEPAGE, I WILL PUT A LINK TO YOUR T13 UNDER MY ENTRY ON THE HOMEPAGE (my blog doesn't do it automatically). I worked for years at a volunteer counseling center...

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Panic, SSRI's, and Adulthood in the 21st Century: What are YOU on?

2006-09-22T16:27:22-04:00

1. TO SPIN OUT OF CONTROL YOU FIRST HAVE TO BE IN CONTROL: THE ORIGINS OF MY PROBLEM. You know, I thought for a long time that I was handling adult life fairly well. When I first started being...

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"Snooping Bosses"--TIME Magazine, week of Sept.11, 2006.

2006-09-15T23:05:58-04:00

EMPLOYER SPYING. RE: TIME MAGAZINE ARTICLE, "SNOOPING BOSSES" by Kristina Dell and Lisa Takeuchi Cullen at 62-64 (Sept.11 2006 issue). Most of my friends get quite worked up about the Bush...

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Doing Grief: A How-to Guide for Surviving the Death of a Spouse or Other Life Partner

2006-08-01T07:30:00-04:00

Advice from a layperson who's been there. 1. The realities of public vs. private grief. First of all, despite whatever self-help books you may find out there, there isn't really a protocol your can...

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Your Health Care Provider Secretly Hates You: The Unbearable Hostility of Hospital Waiting Rooms

2006-07-18T07:24:00-04:00

[first published in "The Flatland Oracles," my previous blog 07.18.2006] Yesterday was not a good day for journaling. At 8 AM Nick had to have a certain medical procedure, inconvenient and...

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Homeless Bloggers: What It's Like

2006-07-15T07:28:00-04:00

[previously published at The Flatland Oracles on 07.15.2005] At Blogger Buzz I came across a posting that linked to this article at Wired News--"Laptops Give Hope to the Homeless"---explaining how...

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To Those Searching for Employment in the Too Much Information Age, A Warning

2006-07-12T07:27:00-04:00

[first published at The Flatland Oracles, my previous blog, on 06.12.2006] MySpace partners with Simply Hired. MySpace and Simply Hired have launched MySpace Careers, a job listings site geared...

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The Etiquette of Death and Dying (07.10.2006)

2006-07-10T07:08:00-04:00

[first published in "The Flatland Oracles", my previous blog] Lately, I've been chatting a lot to a friend who is a thanatologist. She does counseling for the dying and for their families, both...

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Antic Panic.

2006-06-09T22:50:00-04:00

It took me months to feel like writing again. I didn't know what was wrong with me, but I knew that something was. I was frightened all the time. I used to wake up at night shaking all over and...

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"You're Not in Wonderland Anymore, Alice."

2006-06-02T19:31:00-04:00

This blog is one "sub-weblog" of our main blog, The Flatland Almanack. Please do visit us there! I post a note on this topic every now and then, but The Flatland Almanack is my daily blog. This one...

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Friendly and Unfriendly Ghosts

2005-09-15T07:10:00-04:00

originally published at "The Flatland Oracles" in "The Disquieting Damozel" My late husband Don claimed to be able to see or sense both sorts. And since his death, I get the impression sometimes that...

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Epilepsy. It's Like This: Bzzzzt!

2005-09-10T07:14:00-04:00

[first published in "The Flatland Oracles", my previous blog on 09.10.2005] Epilepsy. People always want to know---even if they are too polite to ask me---if it feels as weird as it looks. “What’s it...

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The Heroic Medical Professionals of New Orleans---and then there's Dr. Zed. Paging Dr. Zed!

2005-09-07T22:44:00-04:00

It's impossible to overstate how much I admire the medical people who are there on the scene. Their role in lessening the death toll and giving some people whose plights would otherwise be hopeless a...

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The Ghost in the Image: Photography & Memory

2005-09-07T07:02:00-04:00

[first published in "The Flatland Oracles", my previous blog] I have a lot of photographs of my late husband Don and also of my first husband, whom I divorced when I was 30. I was going through a...

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How John Donne Missed the Point (08.22.2005)

2005-08-22T07:05:00-04:00

[first published in "The Flatland Oracles," my previous blog] "Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee etc. etc." Yes, but that's not the worst thing. If its tolling for you, you can't...

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Chaotic Simplicity---Matisse & My Mom.

2005-08-18T22:37:00-04:00

After talking at length to a clerk from the local Quaker meeting, I started thinking about what it means to live a simple life. Can you have simplicity with a lot of colors in it? My favorite...

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The False Nostalgia Syndrome (07.02.2005)

2005-08-02T07:04:00-04:00

[first published in "The Flatland Oracles", my previous blog] It’s not déjà vu. Nor is it a ‘remembrance of things past’---or at least not any part of my past. I think it must be part of ordinary...

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The Flatland Tarot---A Reading.

2005-07-19T22:31:00-04:00

[published in "The Flatland Oracles," my previous blog, on July 19, 2005] My dear friend, Elinor Spancel (not her real name...), is a Tarot reader---a professional. Naturally, I don’t believe she can...

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Table of Contents---Links.

2005-06-18T23:39:00-04:00

A table of contents to the part of my blog---"The Flatland Almanack"---where I discuss coping in the New Millenium, overcoming personal demons, and dealing with grief and anxiety.

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