Waiting on prior authorization — I’ve been pretty quiet lately. In my last podcast, I believe I explained my issue with antidepressants. I don’t want to go back and listen right now because I lack energy, and just need to write today. If you missed it — the gist is that I am missing an…

Had almost forgotten about this one! And it’s good! — This should have been in my last essay — but, man it was long enough, so bless you readers who made it all the way through! It was kind of an ironic situation, as I’ve had elder care at the front of my mind for a while with my friend’s…

We need to do right by our elderly — I’ve been doing a lot of thinking on this topic for a long while. It’s a long one, so settle in, or come back and read when you have more time. I have been reading Anne Helen Peterson’s Culture Study here on substack. I love it. She writes on so…

No, I’m not clutching my pearls — On the way to school this morning, the first song one of my children chose to play was “Tone Deaf” by Eminem. As I was listening to the lyrics “I can’t hear you, I have an ear in-fuck-tion and I cunt figure it out,” I thought, “shouldn’t it be…

Or some unspoken history — As we sat at the table across from the associate principal and Special Ed Teacher three days ago and listened to them tell us about how our son scratched his teacher and spit on him while he was blocking him from exiting the room, my ex said “I don’t even…

And the demons it summons up — ***I started drafting this back at the beginning of April 2020, while we were just going into the pandemic. I’m revisiting this draft now for hopefully obvious reasons. A couple of weeks ago, I had convinced my two youngest boys to shave my head as a “pandemic hair cut.” My…

Theme: Balance — A friend once messaged me after we reconnected on Facebook, and after hearing how many children I had said, “You must have your hands full with your brood. Don’t know [how] you can manage that. Only having two seems to be [a] handful. I could not imagine having five. It…

I have a longer post started… but, figured I would just do a brief one for now because I promised you all a year in review and it’s now the 5th of January. I’m not sure how that happened… My kids. OMG guys, I love them so much! The laughs…

December has felt like three months. Or longer. Yet it passed within the blink of an eye. I don’t even know how it is December already. Let alone almost 2022. The last thing I remember, it was October and I was upset that the stores were putting out Christmas stuff…