In my post, Good Enough: Striving for Excellence Not Perfection, I shared a story about folding towels. As I explained, my husband and I fold towels differently and I viewed his method as inferior to my ‘superior’ method. My solution was to take over the task of laundry completely for the last twenty years.  Who…

Some of you may have caught a throwaway line in my last post, Toxic: Redefining Stresslaxing as Toxic Productivity. About halfway through I rather casually mentioned that having a chronic illness just exacerbated my stresslaxing tendencies. It has been my experience that many of my unhealthy tendencies, like toxic productivity, increased the sicker I got.…

Funny how you can look back on something you wrote and not recognize the author. Over the Christmas break, I reread many of my past posts and was surprised that they came from me. I guess I’ve had some growth since I launched this little blog in 2022! But after a rather stressful week, the…