Song Lyric of the Day: Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days / When our momma sang us to sleep but now we’re stressed out Twenty One Pilots / “Stressed Out“ I’m over this winter. Normally I love winter since it’s cold and I can’t overheat…
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Done Went and Had a Baby
Song Lyric of the Day: Like when I close my eyes and don’t even care if anyone sees me dancing / Like I can fly, and don’t even think of touching the ground / Like a heartbeat skip, like an open page / Like a one way trip on an…
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15 Years Later
Song Lyric of the Day: I thought a light went out, but now the candle shines / I thought my tears wouldn’t stop, then I dried my eyes / And after all of this, the truth that holds me here / Is that this emptiness is something not to fear Mary Chapin Carpenter…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 17
Day 17: Things that make you scared Ah, this list could go on forever. I already wrote about the horrific political climate. In addition to that, there are plenty of other real-world things that scare me: terrorism, health epidemics, the possibility of economic and social collapse, my recurring nightmare of…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 15
Day 15: The best thing to happen to you this week After last week, I’ll go with the obvious: no family members have received grim prognoses, no one has passed away, and no one else has been diagnosed with cancer. Fucking cancer made last week a living hell for me…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 13
Day 13: A date you would love to go on Most of my and Rich’s dates consist of dinner and a movie. Assuming money wasn’t an issue, I guess a dream date would be somewhere far away from everyone and everything, and where we didn’t have a set agenda and…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 12
Day 12: Things you want to say to an ex I don’t want to say anything to my ex. But if you put a gun to my head, I guess this is what I’d say, in no particular order: I’m sorry for your loss. I think you and your family…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 10
Day 10: Your views on drugs and alcohol I’ve talked a little bit before about having grown up with an alcoholic father. Which is where I should stop and give him a shout out for his 24th year of sobriety. But the years he was a drinker definitely screwed up…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 9
Day 9: Your last kiss It was last night, when Rich was consoling me as I cried about a dear friend entering hospice.
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 8
Day 8: Something I’m currently worrying about An easier question would have been: What am I not worrying about. The people who know me best know I’m a worrier. I normally function at a baseline of anxiety, which ratchets up easier than I like to admit. It doesn’t take a…