My dear friend Kat (aka Bibliosaurus) (for whom I have coerced into letting me design her a website. Possibly with a dinosaur eating books) (and with whom I am ROAD TRIPPING to New York for BlogHer10!!) needed to vent. My blog is a safe place ;-) She's gone through a lot and recently ...
I've spent a lot of time this past year feeling bitter. I'm tired of the feeling. The aching, gnawing, acidic feeling in my stomach is not welcome in 2010. I've spent too much time consumed by bitter, angry thoughts; writing magnificently angry and righteous emails and letters to "friends" and family who have burned me, ...
I am burning out. I need to find a balance between home, school, work, other work, kids, cleaning, laundry, relaxation. I can't find it right now. I can't find it right now, and I am burning out. Three times in the past two weeks, I've just gone straight to bed as soon as the kids were ...
My head is a bit foggy with everything that's going on. There is too much responsibility here, right now. I think I've taken on too much. I just need a few minutes, a few minutes to myself, to think quietly. I'm afraid of what I'll think during those minutes, though. I'm afraid of what decisions might be made. So I ...
First of all? Thank you all, ALL of you, for the amazing, kind, wonderful emails and tweets and comments that you left about this. It really, really helped. And now, my stream-of-consciousness-update. I apologize in advance for the babbling. Bullet style. It took forever to get into the city yesterday for the ultrasound appointment, and then ...
Today, at around 12:15pm, I am going to leave my office, go with my husband and pick up my mother and children. We are going to drop my husband and the kids off, and my mother and I are going to continue on to a doctor in the city. A good doctor. A doctor who ...
No matter what I do, it's never good enough for you. It makes me blue. I try so hard to be sympathetic, But no matter what you think I don't get it. Despite emails, letters, calls, and hugs, You accuse me of sweeping your problems under the rug. Your ...
First, I'd like to thank every one who commented on my post yesterday and told me about your relationships with your mothers. 20 stories, all so different, but with one main theme - our mothers change our lives, for better or for worse, and often both. Our mothers are important for one reason or ...
I'm a bit of a Debbie Downer today, I'm afraid. For some reason I'm in a slump, and I can't get out. I know why, of course. I've been mainly useless all week. I am home alone, which you'd think would be awesome, but has not been awesome, at all. It's just a lot of bad ...
I had started a post rehashing my adventure in the ER/hospital/surprise! Gallbladder Surgery! Many of you follow me on Twitter, though, and provided much-needed and much-appreciated support during that ordeal. Good thing, because I had the post almost finished, with Twitter excerpts and everything, when my computer shut down due to low ...
