That’s cute they think $630 is a luxury set of boots these days.

Several prominent social scientists have proposed the following four principles to protect the developing brains of our children both at home and at school: 1. More unstructured free play for children, 2. No smartphones before high school,

When I work with my clients one of the things I find I say the most is "black and white thinking is often unhelpful. It traps us in our pain. Is there another way to look at that?" So often we don't realize when our brain gets sidelined by B&W thinking and we need help softening the edges.

I screen shot but kept his name out of it as Im not into "shaming." This is such a great example of where black and white thinking traps the brain. It leaves no room to learn. It FEELS like it is very intellectual but it's actually thought stopping. No space for new information. #Deconstruction

This is powerful and well documented.

The abusive father of Huckleberry Finn hates education as much as many of today's conservatives. For the same reasons. Huck Finn's "Pap" and the Fight For Unhindered Education mikeinsac.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/h...

It’s my experience that men are more ashamed of their masturbatory habits than women. Women tend to celebrate their orgasms. Men downplay them. Why? The ability to embrace pleasure for pleasure’s sake takes emotional intellligence. And it takes communal acceptance. Both of which, women have more.

Why Yule Is The Perfect Time for FemDom mikeinsac.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/w...

New Pen Day Yule is often when I am blessed with more pens. My family knows my soft spot for Levenger True Writer. These two make an even dozen now. I love them both. >New Pen Day

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Why Yule Is The Perfect Time for FemDom The Yule Season has every ingredient to help couples move into a female dominated relationship

Why Yule Is The Perfect Time for FemDom The Yule Season has every ingredient to help couples move into a female dominated relationship

My client just sent me this message: “This Christmas I'm giving my family members a card that says, 'A donation has been made in your name to my therapist.'”

Kootenay Girl is a gifted and much sought-after life coach who is also certified in several somatic psychological disciplines, including IFS. I highly recommend her.

Happy Winter Solstice Eve. The longest day of the year is tomorrow. Like a clocks arm passing through midnight the axil tilt will continue to weave its way through the year.

My dear friend, Rebecca Johnson, pens this tribute and slice of life account of writer David Rakoff. This is an insightful look at how writers live in a way others may not. If you've never read "Dorothy Parker's Ashes" it's an eloquent online mag: www.dorothyparkersashes.com/holiday/sant...

If you've never cared for whiskey, it is possible you don't know the 3-Sip Rule. Take these sips about 20 seconds apart First sip is to numb your tongue to the alcohol Second sip is the acclimatize your mouth to the strong taste of the whiskey. Third sip you will actually taste the deep texture.

It’s POSOTUS to me now and forever.

Time for some fun. Words you mispronounced in your head for years. I have many of them. Here are two: Segue…I pronounced it “Say-goo” Bedraggled…I separated the word at the wrong syllabic point: “Bed-raggled.” Now you go. What words did you mispronounce in your head?

Sex with a sex worker who is engaged in the work consensually, enthusiastically, and with a full sense of agency can be profoundly helpful to some. Some find the affection restorative. Some find the sex dopaminergic. Some feel included. Some stave off loneliness. Some learn manners.

A celebrity gets shot. And unless someone reminds you a couple of months later, you wouldn’t even think about it. I address why this is in my 2nd article in this series. (Link to the 1st article at the top of this article.) mikeinsac.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/t...

Sacnurse and I discovered the Walkie-talkie feature on our Apple Watches and now we're like pre-teens with a new toy talking from one tree house to another. While we're both at work. And, yes, I know we both own phones. Don't piss on my parade.

Why We Forget Yesterday’s News Someone is assassinated. A school is shot up. A celebrity dies. A disaster strikes a large town. Do we even recall the event a few weeks later? Why do we forget the news so quickly these days?

The ramping up of Jingoism and “patriotic” racial purity by our country is not particularly novel in our world. Learn the 20th century history of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. They still deny the Armenian Holocaust! They do not allow it to be taught in schools. Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk

If you wonder why people can still follow the GOP when they are clearly shown to be toxic, recall this: Advertising companies were able to convince people that smoking was cool and enjoyable, while admitting that it may cause cancer. And people kept doing it. The GOP knows how to sell toxicity.

Sacnurse often is quite whimsical when decorating for the Yule.

What Cloud Dancer reminds me of: Sickly color of dead skin Face of the Witch in the “Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe”. The foam on top of a water treatment plant holding pond. What snow looks like in February Sports socks after a few hours of playing tennis.

If you want this year’s color to be Phthalo Green, then start living it. Cloud Dancer is cold, heartless, lifeless, timid, and afraid. It reflects how many people respond to despotic governments. Phthalo Green is verdant, reaching out, enveloping, enriching. Make your impact match your color.

Pantone Counterpoint. Pantone’s Color of the Year is not their preference. It is derived based on global color trends across design, fashion, current events, and technology. Plus, no white person has ever been this year’s color except after death. This color from 2023 was more like white people…

I find it helpful to distinguish between Compassion and Empathy They are not the same. Empathy is when we feel like we understand what someone is going through or can imagine their pain/difficulty. Compassion is holding space to allow a person in pain to tell their story. Why is this important?

At Thanksgiving, we had two teachers, a child psychologist, a school nurse, an ICU nurse, a psychologist, and three accountants at dinner. Too bad we didn't have any professionals to round it out. If I was still a minister, I could have qualified. Selah.

And, if we had experienced a number of serious hurricanes this year, it would have been Joe Biden's fault.

Long form writing takes a long time. They are not hot takes. I won’t stop—but I’m disappointed that I have 10% of the views I had a decade ago. I just can’t do writings less than 1000 words.

Too Much Information is Hurting your Mind (Part 1) mikeinsac.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/a...

Too Much Information is Hurting your Mind (Part 1) You try and limit the amount of bad news you hear from the tv and social media. But you still feel overwhelmed. Here is why.

“Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow” - Vincent van Gogh

One of the greatest lines in television history: “as God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.“ —WKRP in Cincinnati

Numerous studies have concluded that psilocybin causes cells of the body to not drop the telomeres as often. This means that many cells can have up to five years greater lifespan when psilocybin is applied to them. This could defer many effects of aging. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

My partner has a four year BSN degree. A Master of Nursing and a Master of Public health degree. She isn’t considered a professional. Oh, but wait…she also has a Bachelor of Religious Education degree that she has rarely used. That degree makes her a professional. Fml.

Elements which have been shown to cause housing prices to be too high: —Hedge Funds and institutions buying up homes. —AirBNB and clones —Uber low interest rates in early 2000s and 2010s —NIMBY development decisions. —Construction costs and labor shortages. Not on the list? Immigrants.

I verified that Theology is in fact one of the fields on a very short list the Big Beautiful Bill claasifies as "Professional"

Everyone cheered the nurses when they saved us all during the pandemic. And now, they’re not “professionals”? This is a kick in the groin Prez Kevin.

I know several dozen current and former SWs, and I can confirm they are the most genuine, kind, and loving people I know. I have not met an exception yet. They are also fun to be around.