I woke up at 3 am last night. Unusually for me, rather than rolling over and telling my brain that it’s time to sleep, I woke up and turned on the light. There was a message waiting for me from my best friend. A mutual friend of ours is facing thyroid cancer. Fuck. Is...
This morning, as is my usual habit, I made my first pot of coffee while my inner critic, The Professor, bitched at me about the things I didn’t accomplish this weekend. I don’t know why that happens. After all, I’m one of those positive thinkers, I teach the stuff ,...
Ohhhhhh the youthful impetuous days of …my 40’s. I was a…well….the polite word would be….serial monogamist (and to my children, you have been warned….you need to stop reading now….this means you Noah James!!) (He’s...
Oh my gosh my dear friends, this week has been really…really hard hasn’t it?? Back in March when the virus first hit and the quarantine started, we thought that was gonna be tough. No one could have prepared us for this right?? In the days since the death of our...
“I can’t believe you said that! How dare you! You have no right to share my personal information with other people…I told you that in confidence.” My mouth hung open and I felt shaky. I was busted, I knew it and she knew it. There was no explaining, no justifying. I...
Last week I was in the middle of my freak out. I didn’t WANT to be strong, I had enough, I had to stop and do some self-care and self-monitoring before I could help anyone else. I wrote about it in my blog here. The good news is, I didn’t stay there. As I said at...
