*Trigger Warning: Domestic Abuse & Child Abuse* Yesterday, for the first time in I don’t know how long, I felt triggered. I was trembling and on the verge of tears … Continue reading Meringue Pie & PTSD
Category: anxiety
Finding Time for Me in the Age of COVID-19
I’m not going to lie, finding “me” time was already difficult before COVID-19. When the kids were in school, I was “just” juggling their school, bus, after school activities, while … Continue reading Finding Time for Me in the Age of COVID-19
A Day for Thanks
In light of the terrible things that are happening in the world, many (but not all) in the U.S. are lucky. We are able to take a step away from … Continue reading A Day for Thanks
Choosing Hope
These are angry times. These are hate-filled times. They are perilous and rocky, but none of this is new to us or our generation. History is doomed to repeat itself, … Continue reading Choosing Hope
Rhetorical Violence and Implied Violence in Modern Politics
Even as the polls are closing and the grim results are pouring in, I am feeling a deep sense of relief that this is almost over. I am tired of … Continue reading Rhetorical Violence and Implied Violence in Modern Politics
“Just”
Is there any more exhausting word
Than the small
The righteous
Ripe
Word
“Just”?
All you need to do
You
Just
Need
To
Do
More
The words and worlds
In that single word
That say
You
Are not
Doing
Enough
A Little Bit More
Days bleed one into the next and the next and the next My laughter mingles with the salt of my tears as tiredness walks hand-in-hand with the joys of being all … Continue reading A Little Bit More
In the Quiet
In the quiet of the night That billowy deep silence Where the creaks creaking And the distant horns beeping Are shadows of sounds That deepen The lulling Quiet And in … Continue reading In the Quiet
Self-Doubt
And from the deepest shadows of her mind That dark beast rises, gnawing, ravenous, It searches, searches, until it finds That little girl, all wrapped inside Her little globe, her … Continue reading Self-Doubt
Breathe
So, the last few weeks have been stressful. As in, I stopped seeing myself as a human being, and instead was just a ball of aches and anxiety. When it … Continue reading Breathe
R.R. Wolfgang 