Back in the Fall of 2021, I’d discovered through a research paper that without planning it my therapist and I had stumbled into what I call “unmindful self-compassion” as a way to mitigate potential after-effects of some autism pathologies. (It’s something I recently brought up...| Bix dot Blog
Last week, someone on Twitter asked their followers what lines have stuck with them or even become part of their personal philosophies. I came up with two right off the top of my head: “There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it,...| Bix dot Blog
Just over six years ago, I wrote about what I called the single most devastating line I have ever heard uttered in a movie, when Kayla Day—her head down with shame, at a backyard fire she wanted in order to burn a box of her...| Bix dot Blog
By the time I had to put dinner on the stove this evening, I was thinking a lot about what’s maybe the best line in the late, lamented television show Terriers, when Gretchen tells her interfering and uninformed ex-husband Hank, “You’re the live grenade in...| Bix dot Blog