Protecting myself

FAKE PERSON PARANOIA

I welcome the good things that have resulted from modern technology, for example, the new connections made on Zoom and the speedy transactions that are now possible, but we can increase our dose of real life to give us solid rock to stand on.

Limerence, the Insanity of Crushes

No shroud can erase our romantic fantasies.

Twenty things you can do about gun violence

Whatever your view of powers greater than you, there are others within your group who are fighting gun violence. Find them.

Weehawken Traffic Court

I’m an old white lady. They’re not going to shoot me, probably. But black men have been pulled over and subsequently shot for a malfunctioning headlight, or, like Trayvon Martin, for nothing at all.

After 70, be like an athlete

The question is not “Do I have arthritis,” because everybody has arthritis. The question is “Does your arthritis hurt?”

My Four Rules for 2016

This afternoon I went to a restorative yoga session . Perhaps I was meant to be listening to my breath during the meditations, but instead I came out of it with four rules for the new year.
Protect myself
Do my job
Seek moments in which to receive and to give kindness
Seek new experiences
In that order.

The Halloween Grinch

At least Halloween is followed by the lovely authenticity of Thanksgiving.

Protective apps for college (and other) women

In yesterday’s post, I suggested that college women be provided with alarm systems which would easily and unobtrusively notify authorities or friends that she was in distress. My husband did some research and found that apps already exist which do this. I haven’t tried any of these, but they seem cleverly designed, and some are free of charge.

Protecting freshmen women from rape

The rape statistics for young women in college aren’t getting any better, no matter how much awareness we raise. So we have to think of ways to protect our young women, and not wait for the potential rapists to change. It is not “liberating” to push unprepared young women into places where they have no protection. Rape is devastating, whether it happens to a man or a woman, but the campus problem concerns mostly young women.