welcome to the 17th carnival of eating disorders, where we look at blog posts that deal with anorexia, bulimia, exercise bulimia, overeating, orthorexia, EDNOS, body image and other related topics. i have to confess that after all this time, the name “carnival” of eating disorders still rings funny in my ears. thesaurus.com suggests these alternative [...]
Entries from May 2008
carrnival of eating disorders #17
May 30th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Tags: blogs of note · depression and mental illness · eating disorders, body image & similar topics · interesting books
wordless wednesday, when there were no wednesdays
May 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments
image by mark witton
Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · wordless wednesday
quickie: i need your opinion!
May 27th, 2008 · 11 Comments
i’m going to be in the may 2008 bloghology. bloghology is “a collection of bloggers and their masterpieces blended as a monthly ezine.” one of the things i’ve been asked for this bloghology entry is, “what are your 5 best blog posts?” now i have an opinion on this but really, your opinion, dear readers, [...]
Tags: blogs of note
the definition of addiction
May 26th, 2008 · 18 Comments
in the last few weeks, a radio interview and two articles have encouraged me to again look at the nature of addiction. one of them is a discussion we are having on this blog here about alcohol use and art, with contributions by danish composer skovgaard danielsen and zen practitioner and painter eden maxwell. another [...]
Tags: addictions · depression and mental illness · interesting books
quickie: enviro peeves
May 25th, 2008 · 7 Comments
alexander over at planet thoughts asks, “what’s your pet enviro peeve”? what a great question! i’ve left a comment there (hope it’s approved by now) about plastic bags at the supermarket. another one of mine is public transit. coming from europe, and having lived in south america, i’m used to public transit in all shapes [...]
Tags: peace, environment, social justice et al
frozen pea friday post: health and poverty
May 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
in last week’s frozen pea friday post – the weekly post about people dealing with cancer, inspired by susan reynolds and my friends who are dealing with cancer – we alluded to the difficulty of paying for the necessary care needed for people living with cancer. this immediately led me to thinking about the connection [...]
Tags: cancer · peace, environment, social justice et al · psychological research and other things academic
a buddhist carnival – may 2008 edition, part 2
May 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments
so … here’s part 2 of this month’s buddhist carnival. you can find part 1 here. buddha’s birthday talking about carnival, here are some pictures of buddha’s birthday festival in perth put on by the buddha light international association (i know it from my husband’s family, who are japanese pure land buddhists, as hana-matsuri). here’s [...]
Tags: spirituality
wordless wednesday: sunset over munich
May 21st, 2008 · 7 Comments
image by marc aurel
Tags: wordless wednesday
up the down staircase
May 20th, 2008 · 9 Comments
this is a guest post by my blogging and twitter friend alexander zoltai. it’s the story of how, down and out with alcohol and homelessness, he almost … well, read for yourself: at first, i was trying to push ahead when i really needed healing time. went from a homeless situation in ohio to florida [...]
Tags: addictions · alcohol · creativity: poetry, art, etc. · depression and mental illness · spirituality
quickie: what’s a friend?
May 18th, 2008 · 18 Comments
just a few quick thoughts here, inspired by my twitter friend todd. in his tweetings today and his most recent blog post, he talks about a social media tool called friendfeed. “friend” is a word that’s used a lot in social media. often it’s just the name that you give a contact on whatever social [...]
Tags: communication · the net
frozen pea friday: cancer and art for healing
May 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments
for this week’s frozen pea friday post – a post for and about cancer survivors, following the frozen pea friday movement – i’d like to point you to an interesting project by ms. frozen pea friday herself, susan reynolds. susan is an artist, a mother, grandmother, prominent second life citizen, social media maven. and she [...]
Tags: cancer · creativity: poetry, art, etc. · emotional health
a buddhist carnival – 7th edition, part 1
May 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
welcome to the may 2008 edition of a buddhist carnival. this time around, we got another really good selection of articles. i don’t want to throw too much information at you – that wouldn’t be very buddhist, would it? – so i’ll present the carnival in two parts again. part 2 will arrive some time [...]
Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · spirituality
wordless on a mossy wednesday
May 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments
(image by StevenM61)
Tags: wordless wednesday
rich! richer! richest!
May 13th, 2008 · No Comments
and today, just for the fun of it, because good ol’ john chow sent me there, here is a look into the crystal ball. try it yourself! 18,170,695how much money will you be worth?
Tags: general
be playful? here are 7 ideas
May 12th, 2008 · 5 Comments
recently, i discovered a new blog, and i immediately – what’s the word? – glommed on to it. beplayful.org, that’s the name, and it says it all. i was able to persuade david to write a post for change therapy. here it is: i love being playful. being playful helps me to relax, to laugh [...]



