You know what? Life is hard. Sometimes the hard is so unrelenting and the pockets of joy are so few and far between and their relief so temporary that it feels like the hard is what life is now. When my kids were teeny tiny and I was in the trenches of toddler hard, many…
Continue reading ➞ Night Lights
My Spotify playlist is a thing of car rides and because I have five kids that partake in (what feels like) 17 activities we are allllways riding in a car. Our drives are spent flipping between various playlists. We take turns playing “Carpool Karaoke” and crooning to our favorite tunes. On this particular day (in…
Continue reading ➞ Singing the Blues
When I was a teen I spent hours connecting to dial up internet on our single family computer and scouring whatever search engine came with circa 1998 for inspirational quotes. I then printed out those quotes and pasted them in a spiral notebook that I would thumb through on the regular. Like a caveman. But,…
Following the 2016 election, two friend’s wives embarked on a #stophate t-shirt campaign that would eventually lead to the formation of Love Will Foundation. It would seem that year unleashed a global can of worms that has since triggered an unending slew of “da fuq is happening?” type unprecedented world events. Looking back, I think…
Continue reading ➞ Finding Hope
I’m not a DIY kinda gal.I’m a buy it already ready to display and on sale kinda gal. I’m not a make it from scratch to take to a potluck or holiday gathering kinda gal.I’m a buy it pre-made or- ok-I’ll semi homemake it if I must kinda gal. I’m not a meal planner kinda…
Here’s the deal. I have been with the same man since I was 18. My friendships haven’t changed in as many years. The people I talk to outside of my “circle” are other sports related parents or co-worker friends. In no world have I had to cultivate a new relationship since social media debuted. I…
Continue reading ➞ Wildly Weird
I get skiddish when I meet new people and then we become Facebook friends -mostly because I go and friend ‘em on Facebook. I suppose that makes me a bit of a massichist but let’s put a pin in that for now. I also find myself uncomfortable when my co-existing online and real life friends…
Continue reading ➞ No Shame in My Depression Game
My goal in my day to day has always been to have nothing to do which is different than doing nothing and if you get that then you get me. Anyway. In order to achieve my daily goal I have always rushed through my to-do’s to get to the glorious nothing to do and let…
Continue reading ➞ Take Up Time
Announcing a social media departure may be one of the biggest faux pas a millennial can commit but I’m a solid-born-in-1984-millennial and I don’t know how to do things without over explaining myself so here we are. It’s no secret that online apps have offered me more anxiety than education and it’s also no secret…
Continue reading ➞ Shut It Down
There’s a chapter in my book detailing my love affair with cigarettes (yes, that’s a shameless book plug but trust I have a point) and if I’m being honest, it is a battle that comes up quite often. And it comes up most often in times of stress and if there is one thing I…
Continue reading ➞ Easy Does It
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