Yanno… I had a blog post half typed out and I just deleted it. I got nothing really to say. My kid has completely fucked up his second semester of school.  He’s a good kid.  He’s just not all that fucking smart. In fact, he struggles with school and always has.  Unfortunately, this year he [...]

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~Anatole FranceGetting ready to move and, while I’m looking forward to it, it’s not necessarily easy to leave a place I’ve been for [...]

“One need not be a chamber to be haunted;One need not be a house;The brain has corridors surpassingMaterial place.”~Emily Dickinson I try to live each day as if the future doesn’t hold anything terrifying…to push the fear to the back of my mind, refusing to let it rule my days, ruining what may be the [...]

“Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts.” ~Penelope Sweet So I woke up this morning bawling like a baby, ready to crawl into a hole and just die. Don’t know what’s with me lately. I’ve never been depressed before but I’m starting to think that I am SERIOUSLY depressed now. (Yeah, [...]

“It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham , ‘Of Human Bondage’, 1915 I think I’ve used this quote before but I reread it today and it sure did hit home. Nothing but troubles lately – [...]