Day in the Life: Sunday
So here we are, and I need to be honest, I go into rather painstaking detail in this series so if you are not particularly interested in the details of my schedule, come on back next week 🙂 .
Author: A Friend
Time Diary Series
Hi all. Recently I decided to keep a time diary to learn how I actually use my time, and this whole week I’ve been taking detailed notes. This hasn’t necessarily been a representative week (my work schedule was unusually light and I am between PhD semesters), but it’s been very educational. I’m going to post about each day of this …
Women’s Health: The Luteal Phase, PMS & PMDD
The menstrual cycle, occurring over approximately 28 days, has four phases, characterized by the hormone levels driving the activity in each phase. The phases are: follicular, when ovarian follicles are maturing an egg for ovulation (high levels of estrogen, which helps prepare your uterine lining, and FSH, which stimulates the follicle); ovulation, when a surge of the hormone LH triggers …
A Poem That Made Me Teary
This week I watched an episode of All Creatures Great and Small where James Herriot recites a love poem (“A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns) in a voiceover. I immediately looked it up and read it again. Touched me right there! Enjoy.
Chocolate-Covered Strawberries
My friend made the most delectable treat for Friday night a few weeks ago. We ate together at another neighbor in our building and she brought them along. I just had to share. Here are her instructions:
Making Space
This article from Ingrid Fetell Lee was right up my alley (she also wrote this one). In it, she writes about the three things that helped her when she was single (before marrying in her 30’s):
Design Your Summer
When I worked along the school calendar, I had summers off which I have to say was a regrettably underappreciated part of my previous job. Now I have a typical twelve month work calendar, but I don’t want summer to pass me by. My first year working through the summer, I took a short hiatus to visit my sister in …
My Theory of Shidduchim
Over the years, I’ve taken a fair number of courses and workshops and listened to speeches and read books about shidduchim. And of course gotten lots and lots of advice (mostly unsolicited). I’ve heard my share of “What do you have to do to be married in six months?” and “You just have to decide that you’re going to give …
Tefillah Burnout
I’m struggling with tefillah, both the formal davening-from-a-siddur kind, and the emotional asking-Hashem-for-my-deepest-needs kind. The only kind of tefillah that feels doable and available to me is the informal talking-to-Hashem-briefly-throughout-the-day-mostly-to-say-thank-You kind. My friend says this is very natural as this is what happens after years of davening for something and hearing no. It gets discouraging. It gets frustrating. It burns …
Cool Volunteer Opportunities
I’ve been looking around for a meaningful volunteering opportunity. I loved how some of these sounded but for one reason or another they won’t work for me. Sharing in case you happen to appreciate this sort of thing: