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The Ladder Up
Hey, guess what? GREAT NEWS! I found the Ladder out of Depression! The LITERAL ladder. ^^^ Bad news is, it looks like this. ^^^ ………. Several months ago, I found myself back in the Depression Hole, which was an enormous surprise given the fact that I wasn’t sad. An occasional teeny, tiny raging bitch, perhaps. Nearly beside…
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10 Top Strategies for Keeping Your Sense of Parenting Humor
I won the Mother of the Year Award – the one for which my girlfriends and I rigorously train and compete – the year I took my son to his preschool graduation, stayed for the picnic at the beginning and then suddenly remembered I had to grocery shop, and took him away before the actual ceremony…
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Holding Hands in the Dark
Tracy was my best friend in elementary school, and, though her motives remain unclear, I suspect she chose me as a friend because she was kind, compassionate, and knew I needed her. And because she lived across the street so I was hard to avoid. Not that she ever made me feel like she was avoiding…
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Surprise Hoedown and a Side of Grace
I’ve always told everyone who loves me to never, ever, EVER throw me a surprise party. Ever. Because is there anything more terrible than a surprise party? Is there? I mean, I understand why some people like them. They’re the Extroverted people. The Enjoy Being the Center of Attention people. The YES, PLEASE CELEBRATE ME…