new toy, new design, new outlook

I have redesigned the main page of this blog. I haven’t had a chance to do extensive browser testing yet, so let me know if there are problems for you. There are some dead links on the left, which I set up as placeholders for what’s to come. I will be working on these as well as styling the rest of the templates in the days to come. …

I’ve finally gotten time to get this project of mine off the ground. After about a year of helping my husband get through cancer, I have decided that I need to do this for myself. Getting him to the point where he’s OK has made me realize the ways in which I am not. And the ways in which I am. I have had depression for at least 15 years, and it’s something I deal with every day. However, only two people in my life know about it outside of my immediate family. I have come to realize that hiding...…

Making Progress

I am making lots of behind-the-scenes progress on setting up this site. I am working on setting the styles, and adding some plug-ins that I think will be fun and enhance the community atmosphere. I’m hoping to get a lot of this done today, and then try to publicize this site so that things get into swing… …

Here we go…

Well, doingfine.org is officially launched. I decided to set up this blog to give a name to the shadow that’s always lurking around the edges of my life, and to help myself (and hopefully others) talk about it in a constructive way. The Disease I have been being treated for depression for about three years now, and I have probably had it for around ten. It is a physical disease that is prevalent among the women in my family. Untreated, it can have devastating consequences, as it did for my grandmother who committed suicide in 1968, four years before I...…