Category: Essays
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There is help for chatbots suffering anxiety….
Today a friend emailed me this link about help available for anxious chatbots. Mindfulness activities help chatbots alleviate stress they experience after reading news about crimes, wars, accidents, and other topics that upset humans. https://www.drugs.com/news/chatbots-show-signs-anxiety-study-finds-124151.html In my latest speculative collection of poems and stories about humanoid AI robots suffering the…
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Memoirs of Susi Bocks
I have a new poetry podcast on the Memoirs, of Susi Bocks. You can find it here – https://meelosmom.podbean.com/e/memoirs-of-susi-bocks/ This episode features the memoirs of Susi Bocks, who courageously shares her painful upbringing by a dysfunctional and abusive mother. Grief and anger hide in wait for illumination when Susi’s heart…
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Feeling ‘Hangry?’ – Hypoglycemia, Mental Health, and the Importance of Diet
Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry published my article on hypoglycemia and depression. Have you ever felt “hangry” (so suddenly hungry that you could push other diners away just to get to the head of the line at the buffet)? If so, you may have Hypoglycemia. Your blood sugar has spiked…
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Broken Womb, Shattered Soul: Living with Infertility (part 3)
The final section of my article on infertility is up on Phoebe,MD: Medicine + Poetry. Links to the other sections are provided. I am grateful to Phoebe and her beautiful site for being a major part of my journey with memoir writing. HEALTH | INSPIRATION By Barbara Leonhard | Featured Contributor [Click…
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Abandonment
In a couple of previous posts (February 2018), I described the time I had measles encephalitis when I was six going on seven. One of those posts includes a poem about the experience, “Hope was not a Loss”. In the other post “Measles Encephalitis”, I described the event and showed…
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Audio and Thoughts: Do Unto
Last night I published a poem on this blog called Do Unto. I have completed the audio. It was challenging to express the hate and fear depicted in the poem out loud. More and more we see posts on social media of people going off on others, especially those perceived…
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Measles Encephalitis: A True Story of Self-Healing
Measles Encephalitis: A True Story of Self-Healing Although I feel that my life has been affected by many events, even small ones, one specific event had a major effect on the direction my life took at the time. This event occurred when I came down with measles encephalitis at…
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Memorizing Poems: The Poet as Storyteller
Reading poetry out loud is an art form much like singing a song.
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Writing Poetry
Listening opens us up to other dimensions…if you can quiet the mind chatter to reveal a truth.
Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver 