Monthly Archives: September 2025

Day 4655: Let It Go

Posted on September 30, 2025 by Ann Koplow

At the end of a hectic Monday at the hospital, I was reminded to let it go on my walk home from the ferry.

All day, I had witnessed people let it go (where “it” was anxiety, worry, and stress) in therapy.

What helps me let it go includes nature, community, and music.

I hope you can let it go as you look at my other images for today.

If you’re annoyed with people, let it go because it’s National Love People Day.

Here’s what I find when I search for “let it go” on YouTube.

Thanks to all who help me let it go, including YOU!

Categories: group therapy, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: Boston commuter ferry, cats and dog, coping strategies, favorite musicals, Frozen sing-along, National Love People Day, salmon dish, September 30 2025, The Daily Bitch Calendar, The Singing Therapist, Twitter | 8 Comments

Day 4654: Calm down

Posted on September 29, 2025 by Ann Koplow

It’s very difficult for me to calm down when I encounter unexpected technology obstacles, especially when I’m close to putting it together.

Yesterday, ChatGPT tried to get me to calm down when

I couldn’t figure out how to use GarageBand to fix “hot spots” in my vocals and
I encountered problems when I had to create cover art for my new single “Artificial Intelligence.”

Rather than calm down, I yelled at CbatGPT when, as usual, it had the interfaces wrong for every website and app I was using.

In order to calm down when using ChatGPT, I need to expect those errors and keep trying to solve problems as best I can.

Let’s all try to calm down as we look at my images for today.

Last Monday, I tried to calm down by taking the ferry to and from work, but non-calming delays on the T meant I needed to miss the ferry ride back home. Today, I will try to calm down no matter what obstacles I encounter.

Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “calm down.”

Thanks to all who help me calm down, including YOU!!

Categories: personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: Artificial Intelligence, cats, ChatGPT, creating cover art, GarageBand, public transportation in Boston, Rena, September 29 2025, The Daily Bitch Calendar, the South Shore of Boston, the T (the MBTA), Twitter, what we have the right to know | 7 Comments

Day 4653: Putting It Together

Posted on September 28, 2025 by Ann Koplow

Putting it Together is a great Stephen Sondheim song about being an artist.

Here is Barbra Streisand performing Putting It Together.

I love the way Putting it Together puts together the creative process with business realities for artists.

I’ve been working on my original song Artificial Intelligence and I’m almost done putting it together. I’ve been putting together two harmonizing vocal tracks, a ukulele track, and two tracks of my making different percussive noises — none of them artificial. After putting it together, I asked my honest and musically critical husband to listen to it and he liked it!

As I am putting it together, I have some hot spots in my vocals that I cannot fix with ChatGPT guiding me through GarageBand. That is preventing me from putting it together to finish this blog post and to start my day.

I will now focus on putting it together here.

Thanks to all who help me putting it together every day, including YOU!

Categories: creativity, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: ancestors, Artificial Intelligence, Barbra Streisand, GarageBand, Le Madeline, pets, September 28 2025, Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George, the South Shore of Boston, Twitter | 12 Comments

Day 4652: Fun

Posted on September 27, 2025 by Ann Koplow

It’s been fun using GarageBand to create a recording of my original song “Artificial Intelligence.” On the different tracks, I sound like I’m having fun, which is great.

I’ve also been having fun facilitating my Coping and Healing groups, where the members feel safe enough to cry AND laugh.

I try my best to find the fun even during un-fun and dys-fun-tional times like these.

This is how the Daily Bitch has fun:

This is me having fun:

On World Tourism Day, I’m having fun remembering that my son told me that I seem like a tourist no matter where I am, which speaks to how I have fun.

Here’s what I find when I search for fun on YouTube.

How do you have fun?

Thanks to all who are here for this fun blog post, including YOU!

Categories: personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: a selfie with Marty at Stop & Shop, Artificial Intelligence, cats, coping and healing groups, great breakfasts, rabbits, September 27 2025, sushi at Fuji, TED talk by Catherine Price, The Daily Bitch Calendar, the South Shore of Boston, Why Having Fun is the Secret to a Happier Life, World Tourism Day | 13 Comments

Day 4651: Turns

Posted on September 26, 2025 by Ann Koplow

Does anybody remember Timothy Leary’s “Turn on, tune in, drop out”?

Now it’s the Daily Bitch’s turn.

Because I want to turn off the news and turn up the music, I’ve been taking some turns with GarageBand to create a single of my original song “Artificial Intelligence.”

So far, I’ve turned out two vocal tracks with harmony, a ukulele track, and a clapping track. Because this is my first time turning to GarageBand, I sometimes turn into a nervous wreck as I try to use this new-to-me music technology.

Now I’ll turn to my parody song, “Technology.”

It’s time to turn to the rest of my images for today.

On National Better Breakfast Day, I shall turn to a better breakfast with protein and vegetables — leftovers from last night’s supper.

It’s your turn to comment on this blog post, below.

Finally, I turn to gratitude for YOU.

Categories: original song, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: Artificial Intelligence, binges, fish cakes and broccoli, GarageBand, National Better Breakfast Day, September 26 2025, technology, The Daily Bitch Calendar, Timothy Leary, Turn On Tune In Drop Out, Twitter and Bluesky | 6 Comments

Day 4650: It’s Never What You Expect

Posted on September 25, 2025 by Ann Koplow

Yesterday, I had expectations about my morning therapy group and, as usual, I was reminded of something my husband says: “It’s never what you expect.”

Although it’s never what you expect, I don’t expect to completely let go of expectations. I expect that humans are hard wired to expect and assume.

Is today’s blog post what you expect?

It’s never what you expect and if I were to be a one-hit wonder, I expect it would be this.

It’s never what you expect but you should still expect gratitude from me!

Categories: life in the USA, original song, personal growth, photojournalism, quotes | Tags: "Everybody's Somebody's Asshole", Boston Animal Hospital, cats, expectations, fish cakes, group therapy, One-Hit Wonder Day, The Daily Bitch Calendar, Twitter, yearly vet visit | 6 Comments

Day 4649: Getting Out

Posted on September 24, 2025 by Ann Koplow

Yesterday, people in my therapy group talked about getting out of toxic relationships and about fears that stop them from getting out of the house.

Years ago, I made this button for one of my patients who was having trouble getting out of situations she didn’t want to be in.

Many people have been considering getting out of my country since our last Presidential election.

Getting out for a walk each day helps me keep going. Soon, the great egrets I love will be getting out of the marshes and flying south. J

oan, our cat, who will not be getting out of her annual vet visit today, loves getting out of the house on her harness.

There’s no getting out of my sharing my other images now.

Here’s my song about getting out of the house.

Here is Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue from last night after getting out of his temporary suspension.

There’s no getting out of my gratitude for wonderful people like you!

Categories: life in the USA, original song, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: cats, coping and healing groups, Great egrets?, I Left the House Before I Felt Ready, Jimmy Kimmel, salmon dish, September 24 2025, The Daily Bitch Calendar, the South Shore of Boston, Twitter | 10 Comments

Day 4648: Distracted

Posted on September 23, 2025 by Ann Koplow

I am often distracted by what I see, hear, sense, think, and feel, so I was distracted by this sign when on my way to work yesterday.

I often feel distracted by other people gambling with democracy in my country.

Are you distracted by any of my images for today?

I was distracted by this t-shirt (“go with the flow” under a heart) and asked the wearer if she did echocardiograms on hearts. She does, at my old haunt — Children’s Hospital.

I’m distracted by how little engagement I get when I promote myself on social media.

Here’s my song “I’m Mad About You,” which I wrote when I was distracted by awful men during the B rett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination hearings in 2018.

What are you distracted by these days?

Thanks to all who have distracted me in good ways, including YOU!

Categories: original song, personal growth, photojournalism, quotes | Tags: "I'm Mad About You", Boston Ferry, Brett Kavanaugh hearings, gambling, Heather Cox Richardson, Longwood Medical Area, modes of transportation, September 23 2025, The Daily Bitch Calendar, The Singing Therapist, Twitter | 8 Comments

Day 4647: What I see

Posted on September 22, 2025 by Ann Koplow

What I see is influenced by my past, the present, other people, expectations, hopes, needs, wants, and unseen factors.

I try to convey what I see in these daily blog posts.

This is what I see for today.

What I see is Boston Irish Dippers, including my friend and real estate agent Jane.

What I see is a dog, but I don’t know if you can see it.

What I see is a quote from *The Little Prince*.

What is see is a book about my passion — group therapy — in Jane’s car.

This is what I see when I search for “what I see” on YouTube:

What I see is that it’s time for me to go into the hospital to support people in what they see.

What I see is gratitude for people like YOU.

Categories: personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: "The Little Prince", Boston Irish Dippers, cats, CNN, gratitude, Jimmy Kimmel cancellation, Reuben sandwich, September 22 2025, Spelling Bee, The Daily Bitch Calendar, Twitter, Wollaston Beach | 13 Comments

Day 4646: You Don’t Scare Me

Posted on September 21, 2025 by Ann Koplow

I sang “You Don’t Scare Me “ in Brookline yesterday and wasn’t scared when

my reserved parking space was full,
a phone rep from SpotHero took me on a wild goose chase to find another spot,
somebody at the protest in Brookline said she was one of the organizers and told me to stop singing,
other people who were organizers overruled her and told me to keep sharing my music,
an unfriendly guy kept taking pictures of me when I was singing,
I connected with many strangers,
I handed out “Singing Therapist” cards with links to my music,
I returned to the second parking lot to find that my car had been towed,
I called SpotHero and was told that the phone rep had told me to park in the wrong spots,
I spoke to the police and the tow company who were kind of scary,
I took a Lyft to go to the scary towing company,
I had a very interesting conversation with the scary owner of the tow company which ended in my giving him my “Singing Therapist Card” and comparing IQ’s, and
I cried at dinner with Michael as I told him about my day.