I forgot to categorize it. Might mean something. Probably doesn’t.
Once, shortly after Pokemon Go came out, my kid and I were meeting friends for dinner. Having missed the restaurant, I pulled over to look at the map on my phone. My kid yelped, “OhmygodPikachu!” and leaped out of the car. I was both bemused and delighted. Anything (almost anything) that gets my kid both […]
Yeah, i know I haven’t blogged since Halloween. I have good reason. I sat down on the couch Halloween night, and… Yep. Been there since. I can’t move. It’s the law!
Back to school time is wild, y’all know that. But I haven’t forgotten that I want to post more! Have a cat picture. This is Obstructionist Cat. She’s a superhero. Whenever the danger of productivity rears its head in this house, Nadia comes to the rescue. Here I was attempting to edit and she was
Water is so wonderful. I’ve always loved being in it. When I was a kid and my dad would take me and my brothers fishing? He never caught anything, because very quickly we kids would be in the water, and no fish in its right mind is coming near that. In tiny streams that barely
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Case manager, care coordinator, recovery coach–whatever you call them, my kid has been through probably three a year since she was twelve. Turns out when you starve mental health funding (and schools, THANKS ARIZONA STATE LEGISLATURE) people don’t stick around in hard jobs made harder by pathetic pay. Anyway. A couple of case managers ago,
Sometimes (most times) I could really stand to get into a rut. A very specific rut, understand–the one where I do the things I need to do every day, without really noticing so I don’t have the chance to go “naw, I don’t really feel like doing that today.” I mean, three times I’ve earned
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I don’t think of myself as a big acquirer of things. I don’t collect anything in particular except books I want to read at least once more, and movies I want to watch a few more times. I’m relentless with my closet decluttering–if it doesn’t fit, and it’s in a direction I don’t want to