A blog about mental health, self acceptance, and embracing all the magnificentally awkward moments along the way.
There's something magical about writer's conferences (or at least it seems to inspire magical thinking). We all go in with two secret thoughts: first, that we'll be the absolute, bottom of the barrel worst writer there. Everyone will confirm what we secretly thought all along, that we are wasting our time, will never amount to … Continue reading Sometimes the Worst News is the Best Outcome
This is May. The temperatures are rising. The birds are chirping. The flowers are blooming...mostly the dandelions in the yard because we haven't gotten even gotten the mower out or gassed or oiled or whatever you're supposed to do to summer-ize your mower LET ALONE taken steps to spray weed killer. We are the asshole … Continue reading This is May
It’s 2:30 in the morning and I’ve been picturing people falling to their deaths for two hours now. It won’t stop. I close my eyes and they come, unbidden, these horrific visions, this slow motion horror film unfolding before me with my loved ones playing the role of doomed victim. It’s like a view master … Continue reading SURPRISE! YOU HAVE OCD! or Why You Shouldn’t Let Your Therapist Read Your Articles
If you’ve wondered where I’ve been for the last few months, I’ve been selling cookies. Well, not me per say. My daughter and her Girl Scout Daisy troop have been selling cookies but because they’re in Kindergarten (and because I’m an idiot combo leader/cookie mom I’ve been doing a lot of the cat herding cookie … Continue reading Oh Girl Scout Cookies…My Tumultuous Relationship with Cookie Sales
After my last post a few people reached out to comment. Though there were a few different scenarios the overall theme seemed to be this: if someone I know is on deliberately trying to improve their health by reducing their body size and they’re accomplishing that through seemingly healthy means, saying something to them is … Continue reading Zip It
Don't. Keep your mouth shut and just don't. Because while you're complimenting them on how great they look, they may be wondering just how terrible they looked before. While you're envying their willpower, they may be planning their next binge. While you're telling them how much healthier they look, they may be having heart palpitations … Continue reading How to Compliment Someone Who’s Lost Weight
Happy New Year! Just popping in to say that despite it's best efforts 2018 DIDN'T BREAK ME! I hope you can say the same! It's been awhile, partly because of 2018's desperate attempts to send me into permanent hiding under the covers and partly because I'd been struggling with what I was doing on this … Continue reading New Year, New Changes
Last night I sat on your bed as you whirled yourself to sleep the way you always do. A hand here, a leg thrown out from under the covers, then back under, then out again. Pillow flipped from side to side as you nestled deeper, trying to find that sweet spot of the cool and … Continue reading Teaching Anger
I was going to write today. I really was. Well, I was going to write all week but today? Today I was really going to do it. Today I was going to be witty and insightful and I'd definitely make somebody cry. But then the kids let us sleep in and I'd basically be a … Continue reading I was Going to Write Today but…
Ahh the county fair, or as I like to think of it, State Fair Preseason. The mini donuts! The pronto pups! The animals! The carnies! The balloon animals! Oh the balloon animals. Despite my attempts to steer them far far away both my kids zeroed right in. They had to have a balloon animal. But … Continue reading Balloon Animals and Resiliency, or I Totally Got Schooled by my 5 Year Old
An Awkwardly Magnificent Life 