archives for Wednesday 11 June 2008

reinventing the wheel

Wednesday 11 June 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar

Slowly, slowlyslowly, as in “slowly the Ice Age ended,” this morning I remembered—hey, there’s a whole section of the DBT skills training manual on acceptance! Fireworks, bells, applause, cheering, cherry bombs. The all-caps in the following passage actually aren’t my affectation (anyway not this time); they’re the Guilford Press typesetter’s, or maybe Marsha Linehan‘s; but [...]

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(non)-acceptance

Wednesday 11 June 2008 | 5 cookies in the jar

Cranky. Cranky is what it is. It has a name and its name is, cranky. Relatively simple. Nothing fancy. And mostly just because 1. WHYYY can’t I get my shiny new avatar plugin to function even though I have spent an embarrassing amount of today trying to do so? This of course after suavely lecturing [...]

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