In many friend groups, politics is an off limit topic of conversation. In many cases, the same is true for me. My closest friends have a myriad of different leanings and viewpoints, all influenced by our life experiences. Political beliefs have never prevented us from being friends, but occasionally a viewpoint with pretty glaring racial …
Game of Privilege
It's late. I should be asleep. As I begin this, it's 1:23AM in my corner of New England. I had a fabulous and productive day cleaning and waiting for the arrival of some of my favorite people on the planet. My birthday was Thursday and they came down to celebrate the weekend with me. As …
Sudden Sunrise
Two and a half years ago, I completely gave up on the idea of hope. I'd stood with my best friend through a harrowing experience with cancer, and despite all my praying, pleading, and bargaining with the universe, she died. Truth be told, I felt as though I had, too. So, I sat in the …
Encounters of Encouragement
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 …
