I have hesitated sharing but ultimately if you are reading this, I closed my eyes and hit “Post” My view is controversial at best and based in my own experiences on both sides of the suicide spectrum. In 2002 I had a breakdown. I didn’t see it coming. In hindsight I can see it clearly […]
You have an intuition but, You don’t know. Until your world stops in a moment, you don’t know. Two years ago, the morning of February 4th we woke up to a world that felt like it had changed on its axis in a second. The events of the day before were like a nightmare that […]
Happy blue Monday!! Now there is an oxymoron! Here we are a month into the new year and your life is in this perpetual sate destined to repeat the same patterns, Same $hit different day. This is the day that the holidays are truly at an end, the credit cards bills are rolling in and […]
What went wrong?? Often, we question our parenting as our kids do silly, non-sensical things. They put the plastic containers on the Barbeque, they scrub the T-fal pan with the SOS, they do things that we shake our heads at and say “That’s just common sense! How did you miss the GENE?” I remember watching […]
I AM AN ADDICT *I take a breath* Boy, that was vulnerable and there is a ton of shame and blame that goes with that statement, even now. I have always known I have an addictive personality. I obsess over the smallest thing, for example: right now, I have TWO pkgs of cayenne pepper open […]
This is a joke in our home, and it never seems to get old. We use it as we explain ADD / ADHD behavior, getting distracted, or rediscovering something. For me that’s movies – I forget movies almost immediately after the credits roll and I get up from my seat- and I can be very […]
I am frustrated. I am frustrated by all the indirect communication going on and the interpretations of it. In a world that is quickly filling with the “spiritually intuitive, perceiving empathetic or knowing individuals” etc etc. I am increasingly frustrated with the lack of communication that is actually happening. Here is the situation- I am […]
I heard a story once from one of my mentors. We were discussing “normal”. She frequently visited the States, as that is where her family lived, and she remembered her first Thanksgiving. The smell of turkey filled the warm home, cozy spices made their way into the linens and fresh apple pie sat cooling on […]
“Let’s GO CAMPING!!!” said no mother who stopped to think about it EVER. Ok – maybe that’s just me. Let’s run this through the JOYFILTER (this is a thing) – copious amounts of work to load and unload the RV, cooking, cleaning, watching kids who have death wishes and adventurous spirits, cleaning, meal prep, fighting […]
The cookies went around the circle. It was 2 o’clock, and I was hitting what I call “the wall”. I could sure use the sugar; my mood was dipping, my energy slipping … and they were these Digestive cookies with the chocolate on top. I used to have them when I was a kid. We […]
