Posts Tagged With: Boston Animal Hospital

Day 4961: Taking Up Space

Posted on August 2, 2026 by Ann Koplow

Something I’ve noticed about myself and people I work with in therapy: We are concerned about taking up space.

I’m so concerned about taking up space that I worry about my new shoes making too much noise when I’m walking through other people’s spaces!

I’d like to be more comfortable about taking up space.

Also, anxiety has been taking up space in my mind as I prepare for my solo trip to Switzerland at the end of this month.

Now, I’ll be taking up space with my images for today.

On International Forgiveness Day, I’m going to forgive myself for how I am taking up space.

Here’s what I find when I search for “taking up space” on YouTube:

Thanks to all who are here and taking up space, including YOU!

Categories: group therapy, life in the USA, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: Boston Animal Hospital, cats, International Forgiveness Day, Jamie-Lukas Campbell TED talk, noisy shoes, Twitter and Bluesky, Watertown MA, what takes up too much space, yearly vet visit | 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 4566: Inevitable

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Ann Koplow

It’s inevitable that I include quotes in a blog post like this.

It’s inevitable that I share other aspects of the inevitable here.

It’s inevitable that most facts are not fun, especially on a day where it seems inevitable that the people in power are going to pass a terrible bill.

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

It’s inevitable that I express my gratitude to people who keep me going, including YOU!

Categories: life in the USA, personal growth, photojournalism, quotes | Tags: “Is Inequality Inevitable?” from Ted-ED, Boston Animal Hospital, I Forgot Day, July 3 2025, pet care, the “big beautiful bill”, The Daily Bitch Calendar, Twitter, what we forget | 6 Comments

Day 4259: Comparing

Posted on August 30, 2024 by Ann Koplow

As a psychotherapist, I often tell my patients that comparing ourselves to others leads to dissatisfaction. At the same time, comparing is a way we understand the world.

For example, our cat Harley is much more nervous than our cat Joan — a comparison that helps us be more effective when we bring them both to the vet.

Do you see comparing in today’s images?

I am comparing myself to the Daily Bitch and I’m happy with the comparison.

How do you think my latest song compares to others?

Comparing that to my other songs, I’ve decided to include it in my concert/fundraiser tomorrow.

Thanks to all my incomparable readers, including YOU!

Categories: original song, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: Artificial Intelligence, August 30 2024, Boston Animal Hospital, Dr. Jeffrey Evans, Harris/Walz interview on CNN, The Daily Bitch Calendar, the South Shore of Boston, tuna dish, Twitter, Wordle | 11 Comments

Yesterday, after I was trying to be more present at (1) the airport saying goodbye to my son, (2) the vet’s office ordering more blood pressure medication for our cat Harley, and (3) the movie theatre for another film on my vacation, I saw this sign:

It helps to be more present, despite the mind’s insistence on traveling to the past, the future, and away from where we are.

Let’s be more present with my other images for today.

Celebrating “life through looming death” has been helping me be more present since I was very young.

Here’s Mel Robbins with a way to be more present:

What helps you be more present?

Please be more present with my gratitude for YOU!

Categories: personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: Boston Animal Hospital, cats, Here’s a Simple Proven Way to be in the Moment, Introverts, January 3 2023, Mel Robbins, Momento Mori “Remember You Die” Day, South Bay shopping center, staycation, The Daily Bitch Calendar, Twitter | 16 Comments

Day 3768: Organized

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Ann Koplow

Today is Get Organized Day!

If left to my own devices, the spaces I inhabit do not seem organized. For years, I judged myself for that because of messages like these:

Then, when I was in my late 20s and dissatisfied with my job as a writer in high tech, I got organized enough to take a battery of helpful aptitude tests. Among other life-changing information, I learned that I didn’t need to keep my environment organized because I have an unusually organized mind. Since then, I don’t judge the ways I’m organized.

Now it’s time to get the rest of my images for today organized for you.

It looks like the Daily Bitch has organized her recycling.

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

Now I’m thinking about all the time I’ve saved by NOT being that organized.

I also like the way the universe is organized so that I’m posting this photo from our vet’s office on Administrative Professionals Day:

Thanks to all who help me be organized enough to organize this blog every day, including YOU!

Categories: personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: 15 Minutes of Refilling and Organizing Tik Toks, April 26 2023, Boston Animal Hospital, Get Organized Day, Johnson O’Connor, letting go of judgment, losing track of things, pets, The Daily Bitch Calendar, Twitter | 11 Comments

Day 3762: Salmagundi

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ann Koplow

This is titled “Salmagundi” because today is Big Word Day* and this blog is my salmagundi of thoughts, feelings, and images.

After experiencing a salmagundi of veterinarians over my long life, I can say that Dr. Jeffrey Evans of Boston Animal Hospital is one of the best I’ve ever met. Yesterday, while Harley was hiding in a corner and Joan was exploring the salmagundi in the exam room, Dr. Evans greeted us with “How’s the family?” After taking a long time to kindly and thoroughly discuss a salmagundi of cat health topics with us, he sent us home very happy (Joan especially, because he discontinued the irritating eye treatments and said she should heal on her own naturally).

I didn’t take a picture of Dr. Evans to add to this post’s salmagundi, but I found these amongst the salmagundi on the internet:

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

What is your favorite among today’s salmagundi of images? I look forward to the salmagundi of comments, below.

A salmagundi of thanks to all those who help me create this daily salmagundi, including YOU!

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* Today is actually not Big Word Day, but my brain is such a salmagundi that I thought today was the 21st instead of the 20th. Here’s the correct list for today;

Also, in celebration of Look Alike Day, WordPress published two copies of this post. What a salmagundi of mistakes!

Categories: definition, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: April 20 2023, Big Word Day, Boston Animal Hospital, cats, Dr. Jeffrey Evans, funny photos of animals, gratitude, Salmagundi Club NYC, The Daily Bitch Calendar, Twitter | 2 Comments

Day 3762: Salmagundi

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ann Koplow

This is titled “Salmagundi” because today is Big Word Day* and this blog is my salmagundi of thoughts, feelings, and images.

I didn’t take a picture of Dr. Evans to add to this post’s salmagundi, but I found these amongst the salmagundi on the internet:

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

What is your favorite among today’s salmagundi of images? I look forward to the salmagundi of comments, below.

A salmagundi of thanks to all those who help me create this daily salmagundi, including YOU!

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* After I published this post, I realized that because my brain is such a salmagundi of thoughts, I had the date wrong. Here’s the correct list for April 20 2023:

I swear I wasn’t smoking pot on 4/20; my mind is just a natural salmagundi.

Day 3755: So busy

Posted on April 13, 2023 by Ann Koplow

Yesterday, after a day when I was so busy facilitating a group for patients and then a group for health care workers who are so busy they really don’t have time to come to groups, I saw this at our veterinarian’s office:

Today, on my Thursday that is SO busy, I’m going to give a presentation to nurse practitioners at my hospital to encourage them to come to my group even though they’re so busy. I may share today’s Daily Bitch Calendar with them:

I hope you are not so busy that you don’t have time to look at my other so busy images for today.

I’m not so busy, even on my so-busy Thursday, that I can’t include another photo for Plant Appreciation Day.

I was so busy listening to the vet tech explain how to apply antibiotic ointment in both of Joan’s eyes twice a day, that I didn’t take a video of her putting Joan in a “burrito” to prevent her so busy legs from running away. Here is a so busy veterinarian on YouTube explaining how to burrito her cat:

Because my husband Michael makes burritos, I’m hoping he will be able to more easily restrain Joan’s so busy limbs for her twice-daily eye treatments.

Sometimes I’m so busy it takes me a few days to respond to comments, but I still hope you leave one about this so-busy post.

I’m never so busy that I don’t express gratitude to those I appreciate, including YOU!

Categories: personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: April 13 2023, Boston Animal Hospital, cats, group therapy, how to burrito a cat, National Plant Day, reading, Ron Lynch, Swordfish dish, The Daily Bitch Calendar, Twitter | 23 Comments

Day 3432: Doing a good job

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Ann Koplow

Doing a good job is important to me, although I often remind people that we are worthy no matter what we are doing or not doing. In a therapy group yesterday, I repeated (on National Repeat Day) that we are human beings, NOT human doings, so we need to try to accept and love ourselves even when we’re not doing well.

Part of doing a good job as a daily blogger is capturing images, looking at them in the morning, and coming up with a title and theme that fits.

Do you think I’m doing a good job with today’s blog post?

The Daily Bitch calendar is doing a good job reassuring us today. And I’m doing a good job on National Hug Your Cat Day hugging our cat Joan (seen above doing a good job on her first visit to her new vet and also helping me unpack).

Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “doing a good job.”

Thanks to all who support me in doing a good job here and elsewhere, including YOU!

Categories: group therapy, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: Alicia Keys’s “Good Job”, Boston Animal Hospital, cats, gratitude, health care workers, National Days June 2022, One Voice Children’s Choir, The Daily Bitch Calendar, the South Shore of Boston, Twitter | 8 Comments