Erev Shabbos Nachamu was my second challahversary. In my journal I wrote about what I learned from two years of challah baking. Challah baking taught me how to be flexible and work my schedule to accommodate challah week after week. It showed me how efficient and competent I can be and feel, being able to work challah into my …
Yesterday I had an appointment in middle of the afternoon so I took the rest of the day off. I knew what I wanted to do with the time off — go uptown to Conservatory Garden in Central Park. So I started off my lunch break walking from my office in Chelsea to Patis Times Square. A long walk but …
Hello, all. Last week I went away for a few days to my sister in Toms River. The idea was that I would use her pool every day but of course I didn’t use it once (lol). I went to my sister for vacation because I didn’t really know what to do with myself this summer but I knew …
Hey all, Just popping on to say that I just finished my summer semester and I am so relieved. That was really intense! I am questioning my decision to go back to school. Sometimes I am sure it’s the right thing and sometimes I am sure it’s not. We shall see how the fall semester goes. How is your …
Hello, all. A little post about something comforting. This Canadian cottage is so happy. It reminds me of summers past and it’s reminiscent of The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery. One of the items on my bucket list is to own a cottage by a lake one day. One day! “Moonlight and the murmur of pines blended together …
It’s hard for me to believe I’m voluntarily writing yet another midterm paper when I just finished school five minutes ago, but here we are. I can’t seem to stay away. Social work is a unique profession within the broader mental health field in that it primarily focuses on the person within their environment and on addressing broader social …
I’m back at work in person one day a week, and I’m fortunate enough to have an office on a really high floor in a building in Chelsea. I face my office window most of the day and watch helicopters circle above the Hudson River. I watch seagulls sail by and imagine what it would be like to fly over …
A few months ago I took a poetry therapy workshop where we did a number of exercises based on various poems. We read the following excerpt from “In Blackwater Woods,” by Mary Oliver:
An itty bitty studio apartment is for sale(!) in my neighborhood and because I can technically afford to buy it on my own I am diving headlong into a daydream of buying it and making it mine. You may know by now that I have a fondness for little things, and a studio apartment is like the grown-up-in-the-city version of …
Hi, all. I hope you had a wonderful Y”T, or at least an okay one. I did b”H (have a wonderful one) because I have such cute little people in my life that I finally got to see! What’s going on in your life right now? Here’s my roundup: Working full-time as a social worker for a national …
