Speaking Shame
I’m sorry I left for two weeks without a word. I never intended to be gone for so long. I faced a perfect storm of deadlines (my final Creative Nonfiction...
Category: Health & Well Being
Maintenance
Thank you for your comments on my last post. Quite a few of them suggested that I didn’t make myself clear and I want to revisit the issue again, after I&...
Busted Lady Business
We interrupt your regularly scheduled program to talk about… my busted lady business! Oh yes, you read that, right. This is a post about my vag. I donR...
A League of its Own
I get the feeling sometimes that when I write about how messy my house is, the people reading nod their heads and think, yeah, my house is messy too. They think...
“The way you do anything is the way you do everything”
It’s only been a week since I decided to change the way I live and already I feel a weight has been lifted. I’ve been moving through my house, getti...
Inevitable Failure
I have been entertaining a terrifying thought of late: What if I can’t be the person, or parent, I expect myself to be? What if it is simply, and inexorab...
The Bill Has Come Due
{More on loneliness to come next week. Thank you all for your insightful comments on those posts.} It feels sometimes like the stakes are higher since I had kid...
Investing in Myself
When my son started crawling I entered the most challenging period of parenting I’ve experienced thus far. In this past week I’ve felt more moments ...