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Category Archives: Terveys
Night of the butcher knife
An excerpt from "Dream," the fifth chapter of Mistress of Woodland, based on two actual experiences — including a depiction of that state of depression I call the pit.
Also posted in Depression, Mistress of Woodland Tagged Depression, grey, Night of the Butcher Knife, the pit, writing Leave a comment
Waking from the grey
The grey is a term I have for one of my modes of experiencing depression. I wrote about it three years ago:
The grey is like a great grey landscape of bleakness, just dust & stones. Emotionally dead: I can’t rouse me, nor can anyone else, to laughter or fun, certainly not joy; but nor can [...]
Repetitive stress injuries
My Aussie friend Sian told me a few years back that the difference between the Aussie (& British, no doubt Commonwealth) usage whinge & the word more commonly used by Americans, whine, is that to whine is simply to complain, whereas to whinge is to complain about something that you are justified in complaining about. [...]
Also posted in About writing, Journal Tagged obstacles to writing, RSIs (repetitive stress injuries), whinge 2 Comments
Ode to Alcohol (poem)
I’m a safe drinker nowadays (& besides, I love this photo, & Midnight Sun Brewery makes some good stuff!), but back in the day I drank waaaaay too much. Yet it played a role in my letting go, eventually, of self-hatred. It, & my friends. Same poem I mentioned in my last post.
Prosody geeks: [...]
Also posted in Depression, Poems Tagged aha, alcohol, beer, friends, giving up self-hate, Heidi, Julie, Lori, Midnight Sun Brewing Co., pantoum, poem, Sharon, Village Lounge & Disco, Wellesley College 2 Comments
On the fat loss track again
Been awhile since I’ve posted on the Teverys (health) blog (or, now that I’ve imported all my blogs to my new website, the Terveys category).
This one’s a quickie, just to say that I’m back on the fat loss track again.
Between February 18, 2008 & last August whensoever, I lost about 40 lbs. (If you want [...]
Out of the cave
I’ve been going through a rough patch lately. A patch . . . oh, about 8 months long. A cave, to be sure, well-supplied with bookshelves, TV, laptop, Kindle, iPod Touch, & plenty of escapist entertainment; but a cave nonetheless, where I lived with my cat & the boy’s dog & not much [...]
Remembering Nicholas Hughes (1962–2009)
Nicholas Hughes: a wildlife biologist at University of Alaska Fairbanks who died by his own hand in March 2009. Something tells me his family, friends, colleagues, & partner saw him as something far more than one the headlines over the past week have painted him as — the putative victim of his mother's "suicide gene." His death was a tragedy, yes: but a tragedy because it was a loss of him & for all who knew him. And for many of those, like me, who didn't.
Also posted in Depression Tagged death, Nicholas Hughes, suicide, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, the pit 3 Comments
Weight loss chart 18 Feb – 12 Aug 2008
Here it is all in one pretty little chart: my weight loss since February 18 this year (41 pounds scale weight to date). The color swatches mark off the diet regimes I was following during each period. Lotsa jaggies during the TKD & PSMF periods: that’s due to water weight fluctuations from carbs consumed during [...]
Also posted in Fat loss, Nutrition Tagged Lyle McDonald, PSMF (protein sparing modified fast) 2 Comments
Workplace wellness
My employer, University of Alaska, has been working pretty hard over the past couple of years to encourage its employees’ health through various workplace programs, like the Start Walking program I’ve now participated in twice. (Actually, we’re still in the midst of the second one — I’m still recording steps or their equivalent, even [...]
Also posted in Start Walking Tagged Melz stats (health/fitness), Start Walking 2008, WIN Leave a comment
The colorlessness is temporary