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Day 4850: Good Deeds

Posted on April 13, 2026 by Ann Koplow

I’ll start off today’s blog post with some quotes about good deeds.

When there are so few good deeds in the news these days, every good deed matters.

Do you see good deeds in my images for today?

Today I am going to ask my doctor about next steps for the annoying clicking noises I hear when I speak. I hope he does the good deed of referring me to somebody who can help.

Here’s what I find when I search for good deeds on YouTube:

Thanks to all who do good deeds, including YOU!

Categories: personal growth, photojournalism, quotes | Tags: April 13 2026, cats, Everyday Kindness and Simple Giving, Fried Matzoh, Good Deeds Day, Jenny Schell TED talk, The Daily Bitch Calendar, the South Shore of Boston, turkeys, Twitter and Bluesky | 6 Comments

Day 4843: Self Doubt

Posted on April 6, 2026 by Ann Koplow

When I saw a psychic in Salem this weekend, she suggested several times that I let go of self doubt.

When I do my Coping and Healing groups, I often suggest that people throw self doubt away in the magic waste paper basket.

If I’m allowing AI to generate information about self doubt today, it’s not because I have self doubt.

Journaling is a strategy for dealing with self doubt and does anybody doubt that a daily blog is a form of journaling?

I have no doubt that I’ll find something about self doubt on YouTube.

I hope people don’t have any self doubt about leaving comments, below.

Thanks to all who have dealt with self doubt, including YOU!

Categories: group therapy, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: April 5 2026, bunnies, Carl Jung, cats, Easter, Fried Matzoh, strategies for challenging self doubt, The Daily Bitch Calendar, The Philadelphia Fringe, Thynksee, Twitter and Bluesky | 4 Comments

Day 4130: Scary Places

Posted on April 23, 2024 by Ann Koplow

I’ve entered scary places and I’ve survived, and that is true for everyone who is reading this now.

What gives me the courage to go into scary places? Knowing that I’m not alone, even when I feel like I’m alone.

Do you see any scary places in my images for today?

I can only imagine what I’ll find on YouTube when I search for “scary places.”

Thanks to all those who make scary places less scary, including YOU.

Categories: personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: April 23 2024, “The Places that Scare You” by Pema Chödrön, cats, Fried Matzoh, my office at the hospital, Passover, rules, The Daily Bitch Calendar, Top 20 Scariest Places on Earth You Should Never Visit Alone, Twitter, watchmojo.com | 6 Comments

Day 3389: Doodles

Posted on April 22, 2022 by Ann Koplow

Yesterday, in both of my Coping and Healing groups, I asked people to doodle during the mindfulness exercise, either on a drawing surface or in their heads.

Here’s a definition of doodle:

I’m doodling in my mind, right now, about how I asked people to be mindful and absentminded at the same time. Nobody seemed to mind that in the groups yesterday, including someone who likes to call mindfulness “mindlessness.”

For me, mindfulness is about being in the moment, taking a break from fears about the future and regrets about the past. When I was in school, I used to take a break from those by doodling octagons in my notebooks, like these:

Last night, after a long day of work, I asked this question about doodles on Twitter:

Do you see any doodles (or things you doodle) in my other images for today?

Someone in a group yesterday said they doodle zentangles and those came up when I searched YouTube for “doodles.”

I look forward to your word doodles in the comments section, below.

As always, I’m going to end this blogdoodle with thanks to all who help me doodle my thoughts and feelings here every day, including YOU.

Categories: group therapy, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: Christina Dedic, Fried Matzoh, graffiti, gratitude, mindfulness, National Days April 22 2022, Nickerson Park, octagons, The Daily Bitch Calendar, the South Shore of Boston, zentangles | 15 Comments

Day 3016: How are we all supposed to stay sane?

Posted on April 4, 2021 by Ann Koplow

Five insane years ago, I posted this on Facebook:

How do you think we all did? Did we stay sane? And how the hell did we stay sane through THOSE five years? (I’m not going to recount all the insane things we went through for reasons of sanity).

Personally, I stayed sane by sharing my thoughts, feelings, and images with you here, every day.

It’s amazing I’ve stayed sane through all these years.

Music definitely helps me stay sane.

Here’s to many more years of staying sane together!

Categories: life during the pandemic, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: "Still Crazy After All These Years", Eggplant and pasta, Fried Matzoh, gratitude, Happy Easter, magnolia tree, Paul Simon, peanut butter is okay for birds, the South Shore of Boston, Whole Foods Market | 22 Comments

Day 2310: What would you do?

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Ann Koplow

Yesterday, I asked my readers “What would I do without you?”

Today, I want to shift the focus to what YOU would do.

What would you do if …

somebody made a comment you had trouble answering?
you loved a certain dish but nobody could make it like your late mother did?
a family member stopped talking to you?
you wanted to stay open to all possibilities?
you started writing a new song four days before a Friday night Open Mic?
you had a backlog of unfinished original songs including one called “Rhetorical Questions?”
you wanted to spend more Friday evenings with your significant other who doesn’t like Open Mics?
you had pets that didn’t seem to like each other very much?
you had the chance to spend some time in historic Charlestown, Massachusetts?
you had trouble making decisions?
the news rarely reflected your personal experience of human beings?
you encountered sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, ageism, homophobia, or other injustices?
you saw some beautiful rainbows when you were driving?
you wanted to be present to every moment but also capture some of them on your cell phone?