Will write for yarn.
We traveled by car. My grandparents left upstate New York and drove the eleven hours to my home in Virginia, where I waited, impatient and seven years old, for them to pick me up and continue the drive to Florida, to Disney World.
I spent the entire journey reading, so immersed in words already that I [...]
You might know a boy who seems like trouble, who drives wrecklessly and punches walls.
You might know a girl who thinks she is too fat, or too awkward, or too uncool, and it bothers her more than you think is realistic.
You might know a man who drinks like a frat boy though he’s ten years [...]
I finished my story, and posted it over on Blogher.
I’m not thrilled with it, just like everything else I do. There’s more to tell, more to sort through, more to figure out. I want to be able to tell you I am all better, but I’m not there yet.
PPD can disguise itself as normal parenting [...]
Hello. Welcome back to another exciting episode of, “What to do when you have dropped your basket.”
What is “dropping your basket”? I’m glad you asked.
Often, it is nothing more than being weepy and dysphoric, not enjoying things you once did. It can also manifest as:
1. Irritability
2. Obsessiveness / OCD. OCD can sometimes be just obsessiveness [...]
I have turned this topic around and around in my head over the last few days. And now several bloggers have beat me to the punch.
But that’s okay, because I’ve decided to take a slightly different direction with it. I want to talk about medications used to treat depression, anxiety, irritability, anger, and suicidal ideation, [...]
Sometimes, late at night, when it’s dark and quiet and I’m completely alone at last, I think: maybe I should never have had children.
And my heart clenches and I start to cry and I want to argue with myself that it’s not true, but there is some little, hard, honest place inside of me that [...]
I am asking for some personal information here, so please don’t feel pressure to comment or use any kind of real name. I would, however, greatly appreciate any of your story you feel comfortable sharing.
I think this is a topic that we don’t hear enough about, and the decision to use medication while breastfeeding [...]
I am fairly open here, from the safety of my dining room table desk, seated in front of my dinosaur laptop. I suppose I feel a certain amount of anonymity, as everyone seems to on the internet. But I am also socially retarded, so I often make glib jokes about totally inappropriate things. Like mental [...]
…if I don’t post today.
If I cannot find the humor in my dysfunction right now, I suspect we would all do better to take a hot bath and a nap and call it a day.
Catch y’all later.
“We are so fragile, and our cracking bones make noise,
and we are just breakable, breakable, breakable girls and boys.”
-”Breakable” by Ingrid Michaelson
Whenever I think of the Spanish word for birthday – cupleanos – I think of “accomplish.” I have accomplished another year.
Not terribly impressive when you think about it. Unless you know me.
My father came [...]
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