Okay, actually it’s 14 pounds in 16 weeks, but let’s be honest, this title sounds better. I’m a writer; what do you expect? I keep seeing these ads scroll up my Facebook page and hearing about celebrities that lose weight for a part (and wow! they lose it so fast!) and listening to friends and…
Month: July 2017
The Wedding and Why I Never Write About My Sister
A couple of weeks ago I sat down ready to begin blogging again, after barely blogging all summer. I felt I had to explain my absence from my blog, so I did, and I vowed to begin writing again the very next day. Speaking of vows…. I did in fact begin writing the very next…
Grief and Loss in Death: Blissful Suicide
They say “celebrate the life and mourn the death.” With Carlos I think it’s the reverse. I cry for his life, for his pain, for how dark it had finally gotten that he finally gathered the courage to flee his demons after twenty eight years. I celebrate his death. For him. He won his last…
The Free State of Jones
I’m back! It’s been months, but I’ve finally gotten the chance to breathe and think about writing again. And before I head out for my Avon Walk, and get inspired to write about that, I wanted to write about something that inspired me a few weeks ago, Free State of Jones. Since it is History…
I Hate Vaccines
I hate vaccines. I cry when my kids cry. I hate to see them hurt. I want to wrap them in bubble wrap and cut out a hole for breathing. That way they’ll never get hurt. I have spent five years taking Celaya for her shots. Last year she screamed in abject terror and clutched…
Excitement Hangover and Why I Say No A Lot
I haven’t had an actual hangover from drinking too much since before I had my oldest daughter. On a wild night I might have a third glass of wine. (Woo hoo!) And I haven’t had more than a glass and a half of wine since before I was pregnant with my youngest. I’m still breastfeeding,…