It is a boring and overdone cliché to say that it is becoming such a terrifying time to live in our society these days. It is obvious by the ease in which we take the news of mass shootings now. I (embarrassingly enough) genuinely didn’t have one ounce of shock in me when I heard about…
If you have somewhere to be that’s exciting, something that you’re actually looking forward to, those minutes will drag by like each second is weighed down by additional bonus seconds, the nanoseconds full of lead and cement. You can see each grain of sand slipping through the hour glass in cartoonish slow motion like Neo…
Yeah, I’m weighing in on the ongoing scandal that is the kid that got drunk and decided that his illustrious and obvious stable future as an ivy leaguer with buckets of opportunity and privilege coming his way, he decided that was worth throwing away to become the most notorious sexual predator of 2016. That guy.…
Read more The Swimming Rapist Controversy; A Parenting Lesson…
When my husband and I were married, we did everything very non-traditionally. We exchanged personally written vows at night overlooking a cliff in the freezing cold by gas lamps in an outdoor gothic cathedral, much to the chagrin of our guests whose teeth were chattering in an uncharacteristically chilly night in February. Our reception was…
Read more Marriage Therapy: It’s Not Just For Failures Anymore…
When I was young, I had a running joke with my mother. I used to ask why she would have ever considered having children with my father considering how rife their gene pools were– both a chaotic mess of mental disorders that good writers make feature-length films about. I used to jokingly call them the…
I got a notification in my inbox a few weeks ago about a blog that I used to keep up. A blog that I slaved and labored over for two years. This blog. A tool that helped me process my son’s developmental delays and my husband’s reluctance to discuss any of what we were going…
Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest 