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Piled Piles
I have been scanning papers onto my hard drive for the last few days, and it feels like the scan pile is not decreasing. I guess my next move is to find out how much it would cost to have … Continue...
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Being In The Mome – Century
So, I’m maybe a quarter of the way through my paper purge – already having filled an entire grocery bag with paper to recycle. That feels good, and it is an accomplishment. Now I look around my...
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Riding The Cusp Of Disaster
My son is in college – working on an Engineering degree, which is costing over $50,000 per year. His financial aid has covered just over half of that, which is wonderful, but he’ll be close to...
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Picture This
The picture I’m viewing shows you and some of your family. I haven’t seen your sisters in a while and I’m shocked by their age. In my mind they’ve never changed. I look again, my sight adjusted, and...
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Guilty As Charged
You wished to assuage your guilt so you sent me a message telling me you’re happy in your life now, and how you’re sure I must think you’re an ‘asshole’. Actually, even though I had unfriendly...
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What Am I Missing?
When my son was a toddler we moved to South Portland, Maine from Massachusetts. A few years later, we moved to San Diego, California, and a few years after that, we moved back East, where I’m still...
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Life Mismanagement
I am like my father with my ‘champagne taste and beer purse’. I have lived the American way of revolving credit and juggling accounts. I am a brilliant manager, as long as I have reserves to...
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Stressed
I’ve made some changes that will help my financial situation, even if only moderately. John Steinbeck wrote in America and Americans: “I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted...
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Angsty Theater Woman
I see the beauty of the season more deeply when the sky is grey, but I so wish it were sunny today. Even the brilliant autumn colors aren’t cheering me up, but I’m thankful for them anyway. My show...
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Universal Punk
I’ve not written in a few weeks and that seems to be the pattern lately. So many things are changing in my life it’s hard to keep up – IRL – as the acronym generation is wont to say. I am … Continue...
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Doing The Right Thing
I wish I had a reliable oracle at my disposal so I could make choices with confidence rather than the fear and anxiety that accompanies all my big – and sometimes not so big – decisions. The job I got...
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Greetings From Boston With Love
My boyfriend and I came down to Boston for our Valentine/Anniversary weekend, and we had fun, mostly… We stayed at the College Club of Boston, and couldn’t have found a more romantic setting for what...
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Post-Operative Haze
I wish it were a better haze. I feel all weirdly disconnected from life, or myself. I think I’m stunned I went through with it. I got in the car with the love of my life who drove me to … Continue...
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Driving Test
Today was the first day I drove since my neck operation, and the unintended non-working left arm debacle still not functioning made for an interesting ride. It felt weirdly terrifying to just get in my...
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Positive Is As Positive Does?
I am taking steps to heal what I can. My trying might not look like your trying, but that doesn’t negate effort. I nearly broke up with my S.O. (significant other) because I have difficulty staying in...
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All I Want For Christmas Is A Valium
My family came to celebrate our Christmas gathering on the Solstice, which worked out nicely for my mother and me, the two de facto pagans in the bunch. My mother is more of a ‘in fact’ pagan as she...
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Our Time Comes
My mother is in her 80’s now. 80’s! I realized what that means at our holiday family gathering when we were opening presents, and I gave my mother her gift to open, and something was happening to...
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Fear And Loathing In Massachusetts
Worry, worry, worry. It rarely lets me be. Will I accomplish what I need to today? In my life? What do I need to make it all work? It feels beyond my ability, so I struggle staying alive, staying...
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On Further Examination
I’m so scared of taking medication, but medication could probably improve my mood. I think it’s a slippery slope. If I take the medication, I might have to be on it for the rest of my life, and is it...
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Freak Out!
No car, unemployed, but still housed. I’ve got it pretty good, I understand, but when a major surgery leaves you with one arm unusable, and no job, and a slick spot that crunched your car so much that...
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