Yes, I sort of fell off the blogging wagon for a bit. Life got chaotic for awhile… work, writing, pain issues, and then an unexpected move on short notice with about five days to complete the move. The latter was super fun, I say sarcastically. It’s been a week and a half since we officially […]
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 a whirlwind time for me, […]
So it has been a very long time since I’ve written. Life took a downward turn, which I wrote about here. I suppose I had a rough time adjusting to that for a lot of reasons. I had a lot of dark days that really took a lot out of me. Grief is one of […]
It has been almost a year since I last blogged and so much has changed since then. I haven’t posted about this since last October in this post, but that was really the beginning of it all. My heart can’t take going through all of it right now, but read that post and you will […]
So, it has been pretty obvious that there has been some stuff going on with me for the last several months, especially if you follow me on Facebook. It hasn’t been my story to tell so I had to deal on the down low, which hasn’t been easy. It has also probably overburdened those I could tell. […]
Living and Learning I am a big believer in trying to find a silver lining or lesson in everything that happens in life. That’s my way of trying to make something good of situations and experiences that are often anything but good. Sometimes those lessons are positive; sometimes they aren’t. But there is always something to […]
I think that Army marriages should have some kind alternative numbering system. I wrote a status about our anniversary on Sunday, joking about how rarely we are together for it. Counting this year, we have been together for exactly one half of our anniversaries. The balance is starting to tip in our favor! I mapped […]
This weekend was pretty awful. We had to say goodbye to our beloved Steer this weekend. In January, he came down with something that no one could diagnose. Extreme weight loss and what seemed to be rather extreme dementia and personality change. In the last several days, it seemed as if his lungs had begun […]
I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about life and relationships, all kinds of relationships… family and friends. The last several years have had their ups and downs, often more downs than ups. I watched The Perks of Being a Wallflower recently and a quote from that really struck me. “We accept the love we think […]
The pain and anger of it all… I haven't written in months… I just haven't been able to. I lost my baby in May and I haven't been really all that into life in general since. Some days it is better than others, but most days, I am just angry. Angry at the world, the […]