Blog Posts

Today’s my birthday (again) and I’m celebrating by slacking off a bit (in fact, that may be the theme for the entire month of April,...

Last month I wrote about family estrangement , something I’ve become intimately familiar with and am still working hard to accept. While...

My attempts to calm myself and impose a little order in the face of our country becoming an out-of-control dumpster fire continue. In an...

On one of my walks through downtown last week, I noticed a higher than usual number of dogs in strollers (something I’d never seen until...

In the early days of my post-apocalyptic life, I focused on two things to the exclusion of all others: surviving the psychic, financial...

The current climate (also known, on days when I’m less stable, as “the shitstorm we’re living through”) has me really leaning into a...

As I was falling in love with the process  of writing, I dropped down a bit of a rabbit hole pondering the concepts of story and...

Having lived almost exclusively in my head from a very early age, until recently I was wholly unaware that everybody didn’t live the same...

I’m writing this on Monday, hunkering down at my desk, the cold wind and steady rain outside adding to my sense of sadness and...

These days I’m finding my reveries riddled with metaphors. Some of them are strong (decluttering one’s physical space as a metaphor for...

I’m surely dating myself, but this question, asked with varying degrees of frequency and vitriol, was not uncommon when I was a child. It...

I’m happy to report that I believe I’ve finally hit upon the formula for creating the peace and joy that was previously lacking from my...

I may not have fully embraced the holiday season yet, but one thing I do love about this time of year is my newish habit of taking the...

Those of you who are aware of my historical relationship with the holidays  may be surprised to learn that, despite a year filled with...

[Those who know me well will not be surprised to hear that my mind immediately went to “moron self-forgiveness”, which made me laugh out...

Fresh from our Thanksgiving viewing of Wicked , the CWP  and I were enjoying a sort of suspended animation. We’d known since September...

This year has been the mother of all time warps. A mashup of Groundhog Day and Back to the Future. Each of the days spent visiting my...

In my previous life, I was the embodiment of the people-pleasing, overachieving, good girl. I obeyed, I conformed, and I sacrificed any...

I woke up on a recent Sunday morning in a local hotel, where I’d decamped to give the CWP  and her visiting friends the run of the house...

[It’s Wednesday morning and I’m reeling. Vacillating between disbelief and rage. Physically unwell. For about a nanosecond, I thought...