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What’ssssss up with all of the snakes in my path lately?If you know anything about me, I’m not one for leaning into signs or symbols from the universe.But, the snake thing is becoming hard to ignore.For about two years now, at least seven snakes have crossed right in front of me while I’m either walking… Continue reading Snakes and overalls

My marriage is in a slow and excruciating path to hell. I am in one of the lowest places of my life. Yesterday I drove to New Hampshire to have a sleep over with my family. I need lots of breaks from my own house, a home currently dripping with negativity. When I arrive I… Continue reading Pure joy

I finished writing my first novel on Tuesday, September 26, 2023. I’ll always remember the date because it is the birthday eve of my very best friend. As a birthday present, I send her my novel. I want her to be the first one in the world to read it. She’s everything to me. I… Continue reading A tale of two best friends and the shadow mermaid

When I received the Miss Manners award in fourth grade, it felt like the highest honor. The proud look on my parents’ faces for having raised me to win such an award made me feel as if I’d brought home a gold medal. There’s no doubt they had raised me to be a good person.… Continue reading Miss Manners

I’m equal parts in shock and proud of myself. My first essay has been published in the Boston Globe. It is a highly personal piece describing in detail just how mean I’ve been to myself over the years and my plan for slowly changing my inner dialogue.  My essay is included in a weekly column… Continue reading Joanna, Morrie, and Henry

I’m too far away from nature these days and perhaps that is why I’m feeling so unbelievably off. I’ve reached a point where my kids’ voices sound like noise. I don’t hear them. I haven’t felt like myself today, yesterday or the day before. I started crying in my boss’s office yesterday over something that… Continue reading The girl in the yard

My real self lives at home and I send a representative to work. My real self wanders around the front yard in dirty green puddle boots, eccentrically pulling out weeds by hand and day dreaming about its future as a grass-free zone, inviting in local pollinators and animals. My representative shoves her feet into uncomfortable… Continue reading My representative

If no one is talking about pandemic fatigue anymore, I will. Because if left unspoken it will take me down. It is the first Monday of 2022 and there’s not enough coffee brewing in the entire world to keep me awake.  It feels like 2020 all over again, except instead of being able to look at the… Continue reading Into the lion’s den

My heart is not three sizes too small But three sizes too big You wouldn’t be able to tell, though, because I have dreams about ruining Christmas Before Christmas I do think about stealing all of the presents worldwide to see what would really happen on Christmas day How would Christmas day shift, how would… Continue reading Almost Grinch

Tonight at bedtime you looked at me sweetly with your perfect face and asked me if I could stay for a minute longer. Sometimes I’m so tired that I say I can’t because I just want to make it to the couch without answering one more question. But tonight, you asked. And I stayed. You finally had… Continue reading Be kind and stand up