Everyone has boundaries, even if they rarely get violated, or you don't know exactly what they are, or you DO know but do not enforce well with others. Those boundaries do exist and many of us were stretched beyond what we thought we were physically, mentally, and emotionally capable of only 5 years ago. Quite …
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Drought
Hey y'all, it's been a minute, eh? I didn't exactly plan to take a hiatus from the blog entirely and yet it's clearly what I needed to do for the last while, says the universe. And now, the universe is telling me (by keeping me awake on the one night when I VERY INTENTIONALLY went …
Derailed
So, folks, it has been a while. Any semblance of a writing "practice" I had built beginning at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 has left my being due to an intense series of events that have occurred to and around me and my family in the last two months. I will admit …
All Good Things Must Come to an End
I am going back to the day job Monday, after taking the last week and a half off. The first part of my time out of the office was dedicated to our annual Labor Day tradition of traveling to a group camp site for the long weekend. The trip, though cut short, really was lovely. …
Reading Makes Me Fall Asleep
About a year or more ago, I heard about a book that I became interested in called Trauma Stewardship by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky. I can't recall where I heard about this book, but it was likely mentioned in some podcast or another; I find out about a lot of cool shit from podcasts. The …
A Day, Derailed
I am not a morning person. If one knows anything about me, they probably know that I am more likely to be awake in the 2am hour than I am in the 5am, or even 6am hour, on any given day. Much of my writing and other creative brain work happens between 10pm and 2am. …
The Tide Keeps Moving
I've had a number of conversations lately about movement, progress, stagnation and time. I think after two years of pandemic, which caused an absolute shake-up to all our status quo, go-go routines, people finally seem ready to figure out what the "new normal" is going to be. The problem is, many of us and our …
There Is Nothing More to Say
Here we are again on Monday night and I have no blog post prepared. This has been one hell of a week. I wasn't sure I could gather the strength to work today, but somehow I managed. The stress and news stemming from the Russian War of aggression against Ukraine, and the whole of Europe, …
And That’s Why My Pajamas are Permanently Stained
I am a pretty excellent cook, believe it or not. I have a couple of specialty dishes (bean dip, most types of soups and sauces, almost anything cheesy like quesadillas, and I make a mean sandwich), but mostly, I improvise in the kitchen. Over the last decade plus, I've gotten to know my husband's taste …
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Conjuring a Theme for the New Year
Happy New Year, dear readers! I'm not gonna lie; we all thought 2020 was bad and 2021 would be better, but at this point, it honestly feels like we've just been through one huge, horrible, double-length year of anguish and uncertainty. After all that, the holidays and typical year end frivolity just didn't feal right, …
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