Category: Mental Health

  • As T.H. White’s Merlyn says,

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  • The drip, drip, drip of existence

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    I’ve recently started catching up to Season 3 of Elementary. The series remains great – brilliant, even, especially when we consider the self-assurance and deftness with which it ventures into topics and themes beyond the usual scope of weekly procedurals. The Eternity Injection, one of the episodes I watched yesterday, demonstrated this fearless precision well in…

  • Running by myself

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    Most people in my neighborhood equate a good fitness regimen with waking up bright and early. Peering out the window at 6 or 6:30 AM, it isn’t rare to see people dressed in singlets and shorts walking back home from the nearby track. Such early starts make sense, though: many of these people are in their thirties, forties, or…

  • “Underwear collected”: Anxiety and running

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    I started the Couch to 5K running program today. I’m using the C25K app in tandem with the excellent Zombies, Run! (which really only means I have both apps open at the same time during a run), and so far the combination of music and continuous item collection has helped keep me motivated. Gamification as a fitness approach…