Let’s talk about Anxiety
Lorena
I’ve always been anxious. I never wanted to be, I don’t enjoy it, it’s definitely not something I wake up in the morning and think “gosh, I hope I’m anxious…
Navel Gazing
Too many forks and not enough spoons
CW: death, grief, widowhood, mental health Dear Tim; A couple of weeks after you died, I was putting clean silverware away, and I had a passing thought – “when we…
Grief isn’t sadness, it’s exhaustion
Google has P A G E S of hits when you search for grief and exhaustion. I know this because every couple of months I kind of go, “huh, why…
What is today?
No, really. What day of the week is it? Because I’ve been convinced all day that it was Sunday. Even though I watched TV with Ginny and Sharon this morning,…
How’s that holiday widow brain holding up?
Surprisingly well, all things considered. I’ve flipped out a couple of times, but nothing so far out I can’t get back, and I’ve spaced out a few times, but again,…
Sometimes I even irritate myself
I need a title for this post but I don’t know what it’ll be until I start writing. I’ve thought of a few titles, but they’re all… so long. “The…
What are you willing to tolerate?
Like a journal, these posts are a place for me to be more honest about what was happening than I was on Facebook, or Caring Bridge, at that time. Some…
The good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful
Ugh. I feel like I’ve been writing this blog post for a million years. Or since mid-April. Same thing. How is it only/still May? Of 2020??? The good is ……
I am a rock; I am an island
I’ve been listening to a lot of Simon & Garfunkel this week. Not directly on purpose, although I do like them. I have a Spotify playlist that has some of…
Smart Goals
I told someone I was thinking of listing out the things I wanted to make sure I get done in 2020, and they were like, “ugh, that sounds way too…
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
So, instead of doing my Patreon posts today – or at least two out of three of them, I did get one done this morning although technically it was due…
If I’m not blogging, there’s something I don’t want to think about
I blame Julia Cameron, training me on brain dumps with those damn morning pages. Three pages, by hand, every day, brain dump. It clears the mind and gives focus, but…