It sounds so cliché, but sometimes it’s true. On Tuesday, the world lost a light. Amber lost her multiyear battle with esophageal cancer. And a battle it was. It was a back-and-forth between treatment and remission, treatment and remission, treatment, treatment, treatment. She and her family went through so much […]
words Ick… I just ran across a highly transphobic response to a question of a meme that I used to do on Wednesday. I thought I’d hop in and do it again, but no. I’ve discovered, like much of the interactive blogging world, it’s one largely populated by people who […]
Sometimes it hits me just how much some of the people in my life have changed over time, something that has become glaringly apparent in recent years. But then I wonder… Have they changed? Or have they always been this way? Did I just not see it? Did they just […]
a rough day Today is that day. It’s the sixth anniversary of my dad’s passing. So much happened during the months leading up to his death that overwhelmed me. To the point that I think, at some point, I stopped dealing with a lot of things. It was kind of […]
I inadvertently fell down a rabbit hole this morning, just by reading an about-me style page. It was less a biography and more of a slide down into a conspiracy-theory and hate-filled hole in the ground. There was an entire diatribea bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing (a better word […]
As I’ve talked about before, the last several years have really shaken my faith in humanity. Even after living for four years with him in office, it still shocks me that 45 was ever elected. It shocks me that so many people bought into his rhetoric, no matter how vile, […]
I am so tired lately that it’s zapped me of motivation to do much of anything but chill. Which is not very helpful for the creative process and writing, which is a necessary part of well, being a writer. Physically tired, mentally tired… all of the tired! I think most […]
I’ve never been good at it. Letting go of people, of friendships or relationships. That kind of thing. Because of it, my boundaries aren’t always what they should be. I grew up in a glass house, in a small town. I came from a long line of lawyers, of politicians, […]
I just looked at some of the other blogs that participated in the Tuesday blog meme I did in my previous post. And one thing was very quickly clear. I don’t fit in. At all. And that’s a little lonely. The blogging community I once knew is gone. It’s very […]
The last few years have changed me. Maybe, at least in part, that’s the price of aging. The “with age comes wisdom” thing. Perhaps that is part of it. But I think a bigger part of it has come from both within and without, the price of the Trump years. […]