Good afternoon people of the interwebz! From now on, once a week (probably Tuesday), I'll be posting something motivating that I thought about the in the days before. I've been blogging off and on for years, but this is really the first time I've felt any good at it. It's not that my writing style …
“Mom! I’M A SWAN!”
Every year on April 2, I share a YouTube video to my personal Facebook page. When my kids were little, they LOOOOVED Jack's Big Music Show, but none loved it more than my oldest. For the sake of his privacy, we'll call him George. On a particularly busy day several years ago, while running between …
Out Of The Box
When I was 14, my "One True Love" ™️ was my best friend. He and I had known each other longer than either of us could remember. We had similar interests (mostly books and language) and our families had been wishing us together since before we stopped believing in cooties. Their 'ship game was so …
Back to the Grind
For the last three months, I've been fighting with the school district my kids are enrolled in. Mediators. Advocates. Documents. Charts. Graphs. Conversations with our doctor. Talks with the educators who, albeit unintentionally, put my kid's mental health at risk. This despite my continued pleas that they understand what their interactions were doing to my …
Early morning musings
I already have a blog entry for today. I put it together bit by bit throughout the week and scheduled it for noon. I'm up partly due to a lifelong battle with insomnia, and partly because of anxiety. All night brain parties FTW! 🤦🏾♀️ Don't worry, this will be short. I'm in one of the …
Worth A Thousand Words
Every so often, I need to go into my photo albums and clean house. They're all backed up anyway, so I don't really have a need to let digital copies take up my storage space. Except for memes. I'm pretty proud of my meme folder. Today, I was deleting old selfies one of my kids …
I’m Okay With Not Being Okay
One of the things I'll never understand about Christianity is the absolute need to pretend everything is hunky dory. Of course wanting people to be okay makes sense. That's a pretty basic aspect of human nature. But life is life and as such, it's not always sunshine and rainbows. Death, sickness, famine, bigotry, and a …
Only A Day Away
My kids are a part of the Veggie Tales generation. Even though we’re not particularly religious anymore, we still appreciate the lessons of love and Monty Python references. My oldest, let’s call him George, still really likes the music, in particular “Bob and Larry Go Country”. If we’re in the car and it’s his turn …
Rose Colored Memories
For the past few weeks, I've been having really odd dreams about the church I grew up in. They're kinda Bandersnatchy in nature because every time I try to say one thing, what comes out is entirely another. I've been a lucid dreamer since I was about 8 years old. It took years before I …
It’s About Time
Let's see. Since I've started blogging again, I've covered the loss of my sister (pretty extensively), my departure from organized religion (at least in part), and the fact that I have "special needs" kids (I hate that phrase, but whatever). So, here we are in January, and I find myself at a complete loss of …
