I recently moved to a far distant land, and I've been having trouble. For one, I've been having trouble making friends and I've been pretty lonely. Now, it might be reasonable to suppose that a person under these circumstances might call a friend, ...

warning: this praxis is unnecessarily wordy and contains sleep deprivation, pixie magic, complaints, no pictures for the last two days because the camera died, and more about comit than you ever needed/wanted to know. please skip this if any of these...

It's been about a month since I completed the gift giving part of this task, and I can now look back from the future and say how doing this task has changed my life. Practically speaking, my feet are a lot warmer at night. I can really get behind Dum...

I am away from home for a week for work. I am little sad, a little lonely, I miss my home, I miss my people. So the goal is to give myself something every day that will cheer me up, comfort me, and/or remind me of home. MONDAY My first night away,...

My parents live 9 hours away, so I don't get to spend a lot of time with my mom. Recently, my dad was diagnosed with a neurological condition that required a specialist he couldn't find in the small rural town in which they live, so my dad has been i...

Day 1: I have a list of mundane tasks that I have been sitting on for weeks. I pulled out the list today and got through half of it. My reward: A jamba juice. Mmmm….jamba juice. Day 2: I finished the other half of the mundane task list. My rew...

Sometimes, I want to do frivolous things. When I say frivolous, let me define: sleep for an extra five minutes, paint my nails, and read a chapter of a book. So for this challenge, I gave myself permission to do one frivolous thing a day. (Which mean...

Day 1: I have had a terrible headache for the whole day, and still I did go to school. Well, I did manage to survive there pretty well, but in the middle of the day I started to feel even sicker.. And I tought that I should buy myself a fanta for som...

I tend to stress easily -- anyone who knows me can support this statement. So, when I allow myself "presents" I tend to feel guilty that I am not managing my time well or I should be reading/writing/doing work. This week is especially crazy for me ...

I find it difficult to reward myself. Possibly because I don't think I deserve it, or probably because I find it difficult to devote time for myself. I mean, as a graduate student, a TA, a writing center consultant, a daughter, a fiance, an auntie, ...