Back in February, I wrote about having a party for my senior rescue dog, Pops, to celebrate his being with us for a year. Now, we are marking our good […]
Author: Katie Long McDowell (editor)
Fall activities are great, so long as you don’t do them
I love fall. There’s just something about the crisp air and sunny-but-chilly days that motivates me. The fact that it always motivates me to want to do things that I […]
When the anxiety gets bad, binge the Fab 5
There are times when I want to get out of my own head so badly, my skin crawls from the desire to shed it. The sensation is so palpable, so […]
I just went to Greece, but let me tell you about some podcasts instead
For the three or so people who may have turned to this page last week specifically to read this column and wondered (hoped?) if perhaps I’d quit or gotten fired, […]
Check on your empaths, we are not OK
There’s a short animation video that’s gone viral lately, titled “The Life of an Empath.” In it, we see an all-white figure as he goes about his day, encountering others […]
Movie plans means reunion with some old (pretend) friends
For a lady with no social life, I have a wide array of friends. There are my baking friends and my makeover friends. My tattoo artist friends and my forensics […]
Movie plans means reunion with some old (pretend) friends
Movie plans means reunion with some old (pretend) friends For a lady with no social life, I have a wide array of friends. There are my baking friends and my […]
Gunmen driven by hate more so than by mental illness
We go to bed one night disturbed about news of a massacre. And wake up the following morning to reports about still another slaughter. Last weekend, more than 30 people […]
We all need that special unconditional love and comfort
Some months ago, I spent several days in Mt. Lebanon with our daughter, Noelle and our 10-year-old grandson, Max. I did the usual things grandmothers do when they come to […]
Podcasts make exercise tolerable
As you may recall from a couple weeks ago, I’m deep in the middle of weight-loss hell. A full month of ingesting what feels like next to nothing, pretending as […]
