The Pragmatic Hybrid

Self non-improvement

Sharing the birthday love

Edited to say: these spots are no more, my dears! Thank you for the birthday wishes. My happy birthday is coming up next week. (Yay, JUNE! Best month of the year! And also – have you noticed how many of us healery/writery people are Geminis? It’s out of control.) And I have a birthday gift [...]

Allergy testing. And some thoughts about complaint.

I seem to have developed a bit of an allergic reaction to the internet. Which I am just starting to recover from. So. Hi! While in my allergic swirl, I was thinking about complaint. About talking frankly (and sometimes repeatedly) about what’s not working, which I had plenty of opportunity to do during this allergic [...]

(Climbing out of) self-inflicted expert backlash

After an intial rush of prolixity, I seem to be in a blogging slump. My first ever. I’m feeling some inhibitions about spraying my opinions all over the internet. A.K.A, I’m suffering a loss of nerve. I believe the thing that’s hushing me is the idea I have deep down somewhere that I need to [...]

The shoulder détente

The exciting new diagnosis in my life is tendinitis/bursitis in my right shoulder, all due to un-ergonomic over-mousing. It’s been hurting me for a while. I don’t remember exactly how long it’s been, because my first response was to ignore it until it got better spontaneously. And it hurts quite a lot, off and on. [...]