PinnedDeath is Defining — Don’t Pretend It Isn’tSo is it just me or a millennial parent thing where I just don’t send the child to school if I don’t want to? My daughter knows what a mental health day is. She doesn’t miss school, don’t get it twisted. But she is healthy as an ox and I…Grief5 min read
PinnedThere Is Nothing Wrong With MeWhat does a chef, a secretary, a book seller, a personal assistant, a make up artist, a cashier, a personal shopper, a barista, a dog walker, a cold caller, a set painter, a pre-med student, a nursing student, a warehouse worker, an editor, and a writer ALL have in common? …Mwc Work4 min read
PinnedDying to Live Again: ASD After 30The way I see it, when we are born, we are rapidly ushered onto an elevator, each year of life a floor. With each ding, we are rushed by more and more people. The lift is filled with narrow thoughts, words, and ideas. There is nowhere else to turn as…Mwc Death5 min read
Mar 7Writing about Writing — A RantOh my god. When I tell you I did not want to write today, I mean I really did not think I could make words with my brain at all today. This was a bad mental health day. …Writing3 min read
Mar 1The Great Burner of BridgesThe removal of toxic people from my life has become an art form. I am the great burner of bridges. Hand me one match with nothing to strike it on and I will still find a way to take the entire bridge down. When my husband and his mother had…Forgiveness3 min read
Feb 21An Unlikely Advocate for Psychiatric MedicationWell, you have to understand. I drank for sixteen years so I didn’t have to take psychiatric medicine (or have any paper trail whatsoever of my self-perceived failures). The only logical progression after getting clean was to assume I needed to bridge my life with medication. In my heart, I…Mental Health5 min read
Feb 7Mourning: Regaining Control by Letting GoI have to tell you — this is not only my first blog in quite a long time (hold me accountable, the first of many new ones, please), it is also a blog I never thought I’d know how to write. This is the blog I have avoided. I have…Grief6 min read
Nov 4, 2021Not I. Not We. Not the People.A poetic essay on the impending death of a nation. There is a sickness that the United States of America is utterly rife with. And it deserves all the drama and alarm that that first sentence carries with it. This aftershock of the plague is a plague in and of itself. A plague to the many due to the complacency…Capitalism4 min read
Aug 24, 2021When She Is Away From MeSpace. This word is almost always thought of in terms of what is beyond our atmosphere. The planets and stars all sitting above us, watching (and influencing, as some believe). There is also the space we have created now with social distancing in light of this global pandemic. This physical…Mwc Space4 min read
Nov 14, 2020Personal Power and the Struggle to Save MyselfIt has been brought to my attention lately that there are two types of people when it comes to personal power. There are those that have it, crave it, want more of it. And there are those that believe they have no power over themselves or anything in their lives. …Personal Development5 min read
