I am crazy about my dog. I am like one of those ANNOYING mommies always talking about her wonderful her baby is and showing pictures of the baby, taken at most a week apart. I do everything for my dog. Her comfort comes before mine. It’s scary. But it makes me wonder. WHY? I [...]
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My Dog
Posted in Observations, Questions, Thoughts, tagged dog, dogs on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
To Kill or not to Kill?
Posted in Questions, Thoughts, tagged animal, animals, cat, cats, dog, dogs, euthanasia, mercy killing on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lately, I have been thinking about euthanasia. I know it’s a tired subject, I’ve even written about it in a high school persuasive essay, but you’re sort of forced to think about it when faced with it. For example, putting an animal to “sleep”. Since the brains of animals and those of [...]
Life, For the Record: home run or nuffin’
Posted in Life Update, Questions, Thoughts, tagged emotion regulation, happiness, life, love, play on March 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A few weeks ago I began this piece. I never posted it because it was late when I wrote it and I felt self-pitying, which shut me down, merged me into my very own robotic, self-analyzing soul-lacker for hurting my own damn feelings. I really wanted myself to feel better, and for the sake of [...]
Things That Make Me Uncomfortable: The good student, the teacher’s pet
Posted in Ideas, Observations, Questions, Solution-Needed, Thoughts, tagged education, positive psychology, things that make me uncomfortable on February 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
To figure out my uncomforts, I’ve decided that this is a good place to lay out the dirty laundry. So let’s begin with what’s been making me stutter recently- how to balance my desire to make the class a thoroughly experiential learning opportunity with not causing the teacher or students to think that I’m being [...]
