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I Have a Mental Illness & a Child with Special Needs

Welcome to Hell. This morning my daughter got to school. On time. I didn’t see it on the news, but it was huge. Way more important than that political ticker tape that crawled across the bottom of my TV screen on Super Tuesday interrupting an episode of The Voice. I was diagnosed with depression atContinue reading “I Have a Mental Illness & a Child with Special Needs”

Cat-ion Contest!

Sorry to my subscribers who are probably getting bombarded with alerts that I have a new post up- I’m almost done! I’m trying to organize the blog and get some professional input on what to do, where to go from here along with some critiquing. Try to put my best word forward. In the meantime,Continue reading “Cat-ion Contest!”

The Danger in Teaching Stranger Danger

“Listen to me sweet pea, don’t go up to any creepy looking people offering candy or kittens alright? Remember what we talked about?” “STRANGER DANGER!” “And what else?” “Don’t drop any F bombs in school?” “That’s my smart safety girl!” This is how I imagine our “stranger danger” safety talk would have sounded, if we’dContinue reading “The Danger in Teaching Stranger Danger”

Index Is The New Middle Finger

As a kid, I was taught that pointing was rude. Extremely rude. I work as a delivery driver for a sandwich shop and was making the last drop of my shift, a single lunch, to a high-end orthopedic center that had its own concierge desk. The air was thick with pretension. She saw me comingContinue reading “Index Is The New Middle Finger”

Little Boy Loved

“The Little Boy Lost” is a simple lyric poem written by William Blake. This poem is part of a larger work entitled Songs of Innocence. Father! father! where are you going? O do not walk so fast. Speak, father, speak to your little boy, Or else I shall be lost. The night was dark, noContinue reading “Little Boy Loved”

The Gold in The Golden Girls

“Picture it” Minnesota, 2016. A mother shares with her daughter a tradition of friends, feelings and food! This May will mark the 24th year since The Golden Girls closed the book on the four roommates that proved to be more family than anything else and yet my preteen daughter and I still gather around theContinue reading “The Gold in The Golden Girls”

A Tattoo Idea Is Born

I have seven tattoos, and most likely, an impulse control problem. I know there are a lot of people who believe their body is a temple and consider any alteration equals desecration. I don’t really think too much about 1) what other people think or 2) what my body is, or to whom. Even if it was a temple,Continue reading “A Tattoo Idea Is Born”

90% Is Showing Up

I was talking about me, not you. You can stick around if you want to but don’t expect anything brilliant… Seriously, you won’t miss anything if you don’t ready through this post and I’ll probably never even know you didn’t get through my entire near-incoherent ramblings… but if I do… Kidding. It’s late and I’m tired. And,Continue reading “90% Is Showing Up”

Oh Baby!

By the end of next month, my “baby” girl will be 13 years old. Thirteen?! Years?! Sigh. It feels like only a few years ago that I heard her heart beat for the first time and marveled at how the fast pace mirrored my own excited rhythm. It certainly couldn’t be more than a decadeContinue reading “Oh Baby!”

Reality Gap

When I first heard that the Gap was the center of controversy over one of it’s ads, I immediately thought “of course. Advertisers exploit what/whomever to boost sales… isn’t that common knowledge?” I can’t be the ONLY ONE to remember the Carl’s Jr. ad, featuring a bikini clad Paris Hilton seductively washing a car, bitingContinue reading “Reality Gap”