Catherine

I’ll start at the beginning: I grew up in a quintessential New England town in CT. My grandfather owned a printing company. As soon as I was exposed to computers I was hooked. I loved the paper, machinery, laser printers, wedding invitations, business cards…

Not bad

I fight to keep brands I consult for on FB and here's why socialmediatoday.com/news/instagram…

the real new year isn't on january 1st. it's actually today, March 20th, on the spring Equinox. Ancient Rome changed it to January to account for taxes. but when they did this all other months fell out of alignment. October from Oct should really be the 8th month and December from Dec the 10th. because of this we're no longer in tune with the proper solar cycle and that's why the end of the year feels rushed. it's also way more powerful to set New Years resolutions in Spring as everything is blooming. nobody wants to start a new habit when they're freezing their ass off. so Happy New Year. today's your day to start fresh.

Happy Spring Equinox/Ostara. The balance of light and dark. Photograph taken this morning in Glastonbury. #Spring2026 #springequinox #ostara

Stonehenge Spring Equinox Celebrations 🙏

Happy Spring Equinox – brighter days are here! ☀️ Today marks the first day of astronomical spring, when day and night are almost exactly equal in length as the Sun passes directly over the equator. #springequinox

Happy new year

First Digg now this cnn.com/2026/03/12/bus…

Will this make IG worth it? mediapost.com/publications/a…

@adele_bloch I wonder if this is why my neighborhood in London has felt like home more than any place I’ve ever lived. People take time to show up.

everyone wants a village, but no one wants to be a villager > drive your friends to the airport > go to their party even when you're tired > stop cancelling last minute > host at your place > support the wins & losses it's worth every ounce of effort

Stillness isn't the only way to meditate. Moving meditation (mindfulness, for example while walking) offers incredible benefits like reduced stress, improved focus, and a deeper connection to your physical self.

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I really want to adopt a cream colored cat or dog and name it Alfredo.

I enjoyed this so much I listened twice goodreads.com/book/show/1877…

Breaks my heart to hear of more violence and victims of another tragic mass shooting in Austin.

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Same x2

Just me? 📚📚

Most people will read this and think optimists live longer because they eat better and exercise more. The study says something wilder. Lee et al. controlled for smoking, diet, exercise, alcohol, depression, BMI, and socioeconomic status. The longevity effect still held. The most optimistic quartile lived 11 to 15% longer and had 1.5 to 1.7x odds of reaching 85 even after removing every behavioral difference. Which means something is happening at the level of biology, not just habits. Rozanski’s meta-analysis across 229,391 participants found optimists carry 35% lower cardiovascular event risk. Blackburn’s Nobel Prize-winning lab at UCSF found pessimistic attitudes are associated with accelerated telomere shortening. Cortisol suppresses telomerase, the enzyme that rebuilds the protective caps on your chromosomes. So chronic negative expectation literally erodes the structures that keep your cells from aging. The loop runs: pessimistic cognitive style → sustained HPA axis activation → elevated cortisol → telomere degradation → accelerated cellular senescence. Optimists interrupt that loop at the top. They show less emotional reactivity to stressors, faster recovery from acute stress, and they default to reframing threats as challenges rather than catastrophizing. The part nobody talks about from this paper: the authors explicitly state optimism is modifiable. This isn’t a personality trait you’re born with. Cognitive reappraisal training, morning sunlight for cortisol rhythm regulation, deliberate breathing protocols for vagal tone, structured gratitude practices. All of these shift the prefrontal cortex patterns that determine where you sit on the optimism spectrum. A 35% reduction in cardiac events from a trainable psychological variable is a bigger effect size than most supplements on the market. That’s the real story buried in this abstract.