Year: 2020
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Exciting News With No Excitement
Yeah, that pretty much sums up everything right now. I mean, I think it sums up how a lot of people feel about everything right now. One day is running into the next and they all look and feel the same. All I want to do is sleep all the time because, I mean – […]
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No Title Will Do
Today is my son’s 9th birthday, and I am trying really hard to feel celebratory about that. But quite frankly I am failing miserably. I knew this was coming. I’d like to believe I was never someone who is naive enough to not know what my child’s life would look like as he grew older. […]
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Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut
So today marks 3 years of survival. My first year I was very contemplative about what had transpired over those 12 months since that day. Last year was far more lighthearted. I was feeling in a good place and enjoying the happier things in life and my post reflected it. This year is different. The […]
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Twilight Zone: The Number 19
So here we are. Movie theaters and malls and parks and all kinds of stores and business shut down, events are canceled, the kids will probably not go back to school this year, we’re ordered to stay home except for essential travel… In the past three weeks I have been out of the house 2 […]
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Brain Weasels For The (NOT) Win
So in the midst of a conversation this weekend with friends while hanging out, it came up that I am half a chapter away from finishing the first draft of my book. So I found myself in the middle of that night unble to sleep with my brain spiraling into a dark place. A dark […]
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Back and Forth
So I failed at my plan of finishing the first draft of the book by Valentine’s Day. That said it’s because I realized there was a chapter that I had forgotten to include which was super important and is also pretty long and pretty emotional to write. So I’m going to give myself a pass […]
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When Insomnia Works For You
If you had asked me before today, I would have said that there is absolutely nothing worthwhile or useful about insomnia. I’ve struggled with it to varying degrees of intensity for most of my adult life and I have never found it to be anything other than exhausting and frustrating and just downright awful in […]
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It’s Been a Long Cold Lonely Winter
Well actually, we’re barely halfway through winter. And it hasn’t been cold at all (much to my serious chagrin.) And lonely probably isn’t the best word, but tough sure is. After the high-high of the vow renewal back in November things have definitely been a boulder rolling down a hill and gaining speed. Except not. […]
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