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One day, after hours of sliding my cursor from Twitter to Facebook to Stats for my blogs and back to Twitter, when I should have been writing, I emailed Dr. M, a cognitive therapist. Dr. M had previously helped me understand that worry is an addiction; it hits the same pleasure center of the brain that . . . → Read More: Twitter Addiction: Advice From a Cognitive Therapist At heart, I’m as much a salesperson as a writer. In 1978, I was recognized by Merrill Lynch for ranking second in opening new accounts among their first-year stockbrokers. During my next career, back in the days of print, selling my essays was harder. Some of my articles received a dozen or more rejections before getting . . . → Read More: IT’S 3 A.M. & THERE’S AN EMAIL: TALE OF A BLOGGING LIFE December 8th, 2011  One comment  BLOGGING  blog readers, blog stats, BLOGGING, email, email blasts, facebook, hurtful email, publishing, selling, stockbroker, Twitter, WORRY, worrywart, writing, writing group While shops experience brisker business on weekends, blog traffic slows, at least mine does. So I’m posting this shortie today, hoping for weekend visitors. What I’m about to write is one of those things I wouldn’t give a second thought to, were I not examining myself all the time for the very gaggle of . . . → Read More: HOARDING WATER LIKE CHICKEN SOUP November 12th, 2011 4 comments BLOGGING, CASEY, HEALTH AND SAFETY, HOME BLOGGING, filtered water, observing oneself, obsessively checking things, quirks, quirky behavior, saving filtered water, water filters, WORRY, worrywart For my recent article on Home Goes Strong about Happiness at Home, I interviewed my blog crush Gretchen Rubin, whose book The Happiness Project–the same name as her blog–was a #1 New York Times best seller. All that goes on underneath my roots Gretchen keeps a one-sentence journal, which she admits sometimes expands to 4 . . . → Read More: STARTING A JOURNAL . . . OR WILL I GET TOO MANY IDEAS? My very first Mr. Wrong told me, “Susie, what you need is a purpose.” That was in ninth grade. George, now a retired psychiatrist, was right. The benefits of having a purpose were never more obvious than after I launched my blog. Blogging The irony of blogging about being a worrywart, is that it . . . → Read More: My Year of Blogging, Lessons Learned September 14th, 2011 9 comments BLOGGING, DIVORCE, FAMILY, HEALTH AND SAFETY, MR. RIGHT/WRONG blog readers, blog searches, BLOGGING, loneliness of writers, regrets, Twitter, WORRY, worrywart, writing, writing groups I’m drowning in junk, buried in boxes, suffocating with stuff. It doesn’t surprise me that all these metaphors point to an untimely end. There would be great irony in getting snuffed out by my stuff, since one of my biggest worries happens to be that I’ll drop dead and my children will have the . . . → Read More: DEATH BY CHOTCHKE UNRELATED ANNOUNCEMENT: See article 7 Easy, Delicious Aphrodisiac Recipes. A variety of search terms leads Googlers to my blog, some weirder than others. My voyeuristic pleasure from reading a daily list of these terms is infused with a measure of guilt. Generally, we Google in the privacy of a bubble that envelops only ourselves and . . . → Read More: AM I A VOYEUR? BEHIND THE SCENES OF MY BLOG March 17th, 2011 2 comments BLOGGING, CASEY, HEALTH AND SAFETY, MR. RIGHT/WRONG, RELIGION A BLOGGER'S SEARCHES, atheist praying, BLOGGING, Googling, jewish dog name, lovers looking at search history, lowbrow, others looking at your searches, privacy of searches, ricky nelson, search terms, site stats, SNL hug, voyeurism, WORRY, worrywart Unrelated announcement: See my latest article “Inside Top Designer’s Home, Cool Ideas for Comfort and Style.” At times it’s a challenge to dream up worries to write about. For one thing, my busy blogging schedule helps keep my usual disaster scenarios at bay. For instance, I haven’t worried about bedbugs since yesterday. Other times . . . → Read More: WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT? DECISION-MAKING & ITS IRKSOME ALTER EGO, CHOICES February 24th, 2011 7 comments BLOGGING, CASEY, FAMILY, HOME angst, blog readership, BLOGGING, dog nicknames, embarrassing nicknames, finding things to blog about, lack of writing ideas, stress, too many choices, WORRY, worrywart, writer's block, writing ideas TANGENTIALLY-RELATED ANNOUNCEMENT: See my Home Goes Strong article “Throw an Ugly Sweater Party, It’s all the Rage.” Everyone has been inviting me to their Ugly Sweater Parties. Everyone has been inviting me to his or her Ugly Sweater Party. Even though “everyone” sounds like a truckload of folks, the singular “his or her” is . . . → Read More: WORRIED WHAT YOU’LL THINK January 16th, 2011 7 comments BLOGGING, RUMINATIONS, WIRED TO WORRY angst, ANXIETY, BLOGGING, grammar, possessive pronouns, stress, what others think, what people think, worried, WORRY, worrywart It all began with a tweet from MaMoosie, even though it originally began 50 years ago with a French kiss lesson. During one of my maladaptive, obsessive, neurotic checkings of Twitter messages, I see this retweet from one of my followers “MaMoosie” who knows I’m a writer: “’Writing is easy. All . . . → Read More: TWITTER REUNITES WORRYWART WITH OLD FRIEND December 6th, 2010 6 comments BLOGGING, MR. RIGHT/WRONG, RUMINATIONS, WIRED TO WORRY, WISHES advice to writers, AdviceToWriters, angst, ANXIETY, BLOGGING, Dick Cavett, first boyfriend, French kissing, getting organized, Jon Winokur, name to use when signing email, names, nicknames, ninth grade power couple, number of Twitter followers, obsessive checking Twitter, stress, Twitter, WORRY, worrywart, writers' quotes, writing life Right now I’m overwhelmed. My 12-year-old Casey has been in pain for more than a week and after 2 vet visits and 2 xrays we still don’t know what is wrong, except that the pain seems to be coming from his neck. The rest are White Girl Worries. My mind can never rest, because I’m always . . . → Read More: KEEPING BUSY, WORRY CURE OR WORRY CURSE? October 28th, 2010 5 comments BLOGGING, CASEY, HOME, RUMINATIONS, TIPS ANXIETY, being busy, BLOGGING, keeping busy, sick dog, stress, white girl worries, WORRY, worry tips, worrywart I’ve always worried about time running out, and after starting my blog, I knew it was only a matter of time, so to speak, before I would write about, um, time. Once I knew I’d be yammering on these pages about this t-word, naturally I began noticing, even more than usual, how much I fiddle . . . → Read More: TIME, TARRYING AND TYPOS October 8th, 2010 5 comments BLOGGING, RUMINATIONS ANXIETY, BLOGGING, capitalizing in emails, cell phone typos correcting typos, lower case emails, stress, time, typos, wasting time, WORRY, worrywart When, in the middle of my growing up years, I went to typing school, they taught me to type two spaces after periods, colons and semi-colons. So that’s what I always did, until very recently, when I began writing 2 articles a week for Home Goes Strong, where my editor asked me to use only . . . → Read More: ONE SPACE OR TWO? September 13th, 2010 25 comments BLOGGING, RUMINATIONS ANXIETY, BLOGGING, brain chatter, double spacing, fave, saving time, single spacing, spacing after a period, time, typing, wasting time, WORRY, worrywart Oh dear, I’m afraid I was terribly insensitive in my previous blog post, Worry Orgasm, which was about how worried I became when a train I was scheduled to take became delayed due to someone jumping in front of it at a previous stop. A friend, generally a supportive fan, wrote to say that she . . . → Read More: “WORRY ORGASM” REGRETS September 1st, 2010 One comment BLOGGING, HEALTH AND SAFETY, travel ANXIETY, apology, BLOGGING, friends, insensitivity, stress, suicide, taboo, train delays, train suicide, trains, trivializing, WORRY, worrywart In case you don’t make it to the end, where I’ll refer to this again, see my latest post on NBC’s new Website Home Goes Strong, “My (91-year-old) Mom’s Do-It-Youself Decorating Tips.” On another note, this past weekend I visited my brother’s family in Philly, where I picked up some tips from my niece, . . . → Read More: DOUBLE TIPS WEEKEND & SPREAD-THE-WORD DAY Ok, I’m trying to get this right with my blogging in 3 different places (Worrywart, Huffinton Post and Home Goes Strong). I tweet my new posts, I facebook my new posts, my dear daughters do the same, I link one post to the next and when I start a new project, like the semi-weekly home . . . → Read More: 18 LIFE LESSONS FROM FRIENDS AND FAMILY August 23rd, 2010 Leave a comment BLOGGING, FAMILY bar mitzvah speech, BLOGGING, feng shui, Home Goes Strong, life lessons, losing wallet, WORRY, worrywart I get anxious on weekends when everyone’s too busy to read my blog. So, I’m just writing to say hi and that I’ll be back early in the week when folks have returned to their offices where they have time to visit. August 14th, 2010 Leave a comment BLOGGING blog readers, BLOGGING, blogging on weekends, WORRY, worrywart The splendid thing about being a worrywart with a blog is that you awaken worrying how you’ll come up with an idea for your next post, even though you know that one worry after another will pop up into your head all day long like a CNN ribbon winding itself around your amygdala. . . . . . → Read More: FINDING THINGS TO WRITE ABOUT Sometimes I play a game in which I name an object and then try to associate a worry with it, just to see if I can stump myself. “Venetian blinds,” I say. “Peeping Tom!” I answer without having inhaled. “Tomatoes,” I try. “Salmonella poisoning!” Another way to play is to see how many worries I . . . → Read More: TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG June 8th, 2010 16 comments BLOGGING, DIVORCE, FAMILY, HEALTH AND SAFETY, MR. 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