Why Mommy Wars Make Sense
It has been over two years since I wrote this, so if you wrote about mommy wars recently… This is only directed at you in a prophetic sense. Okay, so…
ReadmoreRemembering Reality
Late one Friday afternoon, back in the day when I worked for a property management company, a woman called because she needed us to unlock a door to give the…
ReadmoreSomeday
I think it would be remarkably refreshing to encounter the sort of homeschooling parent who can confidently say “all forms of education have their drawbacks, and blah blah blah is…
ReadmoreA Tale Of Two Blog Posts
I spent four hours awake in bed today. I was still except for the movement of my thumb on my phone and occasional rolling of my eyes at the inevitable…
ReadmoreThoughts of Death and Life and Almost Understanding
I nodded in silence as my friend continued talking about her feelings, but I was several steps behind, trying to fit together what she had said. I had not been…
Readmore5 Years
I am backdating this to the day that I wrote most of it. Because I can. This month we celebrate five years of marriage. I have spent the past month…
ReadmoreThoughts on Anger
Sometimes I think that the more I feel, the less I understand others’ feelings. I have known for at least a few years that I do not “get” anger in…
ReadmoreNot on not apologizing (or ewwww, gross!)
I was going to apologize for my casual reference to panic attacks in my past post. I was going to explain that I did not mean to reduce the very…
ReadmoreGrief Unobserved
There have been times when I have felt a connection. There have been times when I have known things that I really had no way to know. There have been…
ReadmoreWhen The Wrong Thing Is the Right Thing
Two people in my life have said the wrong thing to me recently. Multiple times. It only counts because they are both close enough that it should be obvious to…
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