I need to talk to you. I have something going on in my life that only you will understand and your counsel means the most to me. There’s something big going on in my world and I want to run to you and spill my guts. But I can’t talk to you. You’re dead. “Gone.” […]
Perfect Living
People – The only thing worse than poop.
There are four bathrooms in my office building. Two are single occupant, unisex rooms and the other two are gendered multiple stall rooms. Nine times out of ten the single-occupant bathrooms smell like poop because (most) people in the building use the private rooms for their number twos. Despite that losing gamble, I prefer the […]
The War With Time
We were starting to panic. Short with the kids and snipping at each other we were running red lights and ignoring the speed limit. We were late. Running between back-to-back-to-back events that Monday evening after putting in full days at work and school, we were feeling the crunch. Each event ran later than planned, putting […]
Gaining Vision
I couldn’t stop stabbing myself in the eye. No matter what I did, I couldn’t stop stabbing myself in the eyes. I bought a mirror to use in my office. I propped it up on a jar on my desk. But every time, I stabbed my eye. I twisted and contorted my arm and hand […]
The Secret of Marriage
They looked at me like I had sprouted three heads. I had blurted out the first thing that came to my mind when I read the question and now I was receiving looks of shock, bewilderment, distress. I was used to a little shock and discomfort when I drop an F-bomb, but I hadn’t this […]
The Window of My Mind
If you want to know how I’m handling life, look in my purse. Some days I am completely on top of my game. The kitchen is cleaned after every meal; kids make it to bed on time; laundry is washed, dried, folded, and put away all on the same day; I work out, eat right(ish), […]
The Working Mom’s Nightmare
Reading program at the library: Registration Tuesday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Reading program at the library: Fun activities every week! 10:30 a.m. on Tuesdays. Bible camp: Every day for one week in June, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Free movies at the movie theater!: Every Thursday at 1:30 p.m. Discounted movies at the other […]
To my husband during our dry spell
Dear Husband, I love you. I really do. More than I did on the day we married. But I don’t want to have sex with you. Ouch. That hurts me to say out loud probably more than it hurts you to hear it. I wish I wanted to have sex. But I don’t. We used […]
Mother’s Day Sucks
I’d like to start a movement: To remove Mother’s Day as a holiday. Or at the very least, remove it as a commercialized holiday so we can quit fucking hearing about it! Mother’s Day sucks. It just does. For so many, Mother’s Day is a horrible reminder of what isn’t, what can’t be, what was, […]
Travel Buddies
I didn’t know the man. I had never met him. Even that morning I didn’t know his name. Yet there I was, sobbing uncontrollably at the news of his death. I had just taken my kids in to their school and when I came back to my car there was a text message from a […]