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
Sometimes- okay a lot of times- I see beautiful women with curves in all the right places and I think “maybe I should try harder to look like that” and then I remember that I did try hard to look like that and while I had a “she didn’t let herself go” figure, I had…
Continue reading ➞ This and That
Depression is a beast. A monster. Maybe even a demon. It is ruthless and relentless and I think it might be evil. It is brain numbing and soul crushing and life sucking. It taints the very thing we need to release ourselves from its grasp: our mind. And it destroys the one thing it takes…
Continue reading ➞ Managing Mantras
Last year circa Homecoming 2023 my #1 asked me to help him tie his black suit tie around his bright red shirt collar. Never have I ever tied a tie but since we bought him a real tie over a clip-on I did what any modern-day mom would do and YouTubed it. He crouched at…
Listen, I know that extraordinary people with extraordinary stories are- well- extraordinary.Rags to riches.Rising from the ashes.Beating the odds.Wow, that’s really something.In fact, it’s extraordinary. And I love reading those stories.On one hand, they are a reminder that if a human can survive and thrive in spite of those unbelievable odds then surely I can…
Continue reading ➞ Extra Ordinary
📸: Sweet As Hunny Photography 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…
Continue reading ➞ Hearts of Humanity
Once upon a time I deactivated my social media accounts and in doing so, Facebook deleted my Rebel Housewife page and that means it also deleted all the micros that I had written which is all well and good but also it was definitely an unexpected consequence of my social media sabbatical. In order to…
Continue reading ➞ Rude Intrudes
I think I have figured it out. I mentioned that lately, I've been feeling off. I guess that means I feel like I'm floating and am in fact, not feeling. When I do feel it is a one of overwhelm. I have been scratching my head- so to speak- racking my brain as to why…
Continue reading ➞ Therapy Matters
You know how sometimes things run their course? Like you’ve taken them as far as they can go and continuing the charade would just be redundant and oh I don’t know, embarrassing and annoying to everyone involved? Like hearing about it for the zillionth time would prompt the following Simon Cowell reaction? Well that’s how…
Continue reading ➞ Mental Health Mondays
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