Story teller. Child wrangler. Mental health advocate and warrior. Staunch practitioner of sarcasm. Finding joy.
Milo Monday is being demoted for a week because I HAVE NEWS!!!! I had the absolute pleasure of talking with author, fellow mom of 5, and my online writer friend, Brittany Meng of The Motherhood Metamorphosis Podcast a few weeks ago! We discussed (what I believe to be) the impact of social media on motherhood. This conversation…
Continue reading ➞ I’m On A Podcast!
I have always been unsettled with technology. Okay, not always. Since about circa 2010 when I first was able to log in to Facebook from my QWERTY capable slide phone. Jesus, I'm old. Anyway. Since then, I have been unsettled with technology and more specifically with social media and to be even more specific: with…
Continue reading ➞ Un-Social Media
And here's tradition #2 that I will be carrying over from Insta-stories to insta-wordpress! Thursday Thoughts! I always use this photo because it looks like I'm thinking when in reality I was probably napping with my eyes open. I came up with this idea because I think that we all get to feeling alone up…
Continue reading ➞ Thursday Thoughts
I want to write something profound and brilliant. I want to knock your socks off with an inspirational mantra. I want to blow your mind with an insight so deep it makes you re-think everything you’ve ever thought. But all I can think to say is this. I’m exhausted. Tapped out. But also I feel…
I don't know about your social media feeds but mine is inundated with both memories and reflections of the fact that it is a little over a year since the world was told that it was facing a global pandemic and that the human species would be required to become ZOOM aficionados. And while I…
Continue reading ➞ Crowd Control
Dear Warrior who has seen the online fallout from the Megan and Harry interview, I know right now the world is giving the impression that you are responsible for the way your brain responds to mental illness but I want you to know that even if it is your choices that led you to this…
Continue reading ➞ A Real Love Letter: Warrior Edition
Reconciling with my changed body is a work in progress and I have worked hard to be kind and accepting to my mid-thirty figure. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But what is it about a camera lens that takes hard fought for inner peace and turns it into unwavering doubt. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ My daughter snapped this shot while I was…
Continue reading ➞ Keep Looking, Warriors
I never knew what was missing. Or that it mattered that I missed it. Or that it was a thing to miss. Maybe I should start with what I am talking about but I am afraid that once I say the words most of you will just keep on scrolling, no judgement, because this concept,…
Continue reading ➞ Ph-antastic Phantoms
I am trying to get better about letting you all know who I am and what you will find here so I am just going to take this opportunity to chat about, well, me. I started writing in my early teens as a coping mechanism for my depression and it is a theme that has…
Continue reading ➞ A Little Blurb About Yours Truly
