This morning I turned on the computer and the first thing I saw on my homepage was: Josh Duggar Responds to What He Calls ‘Inexcusable’ Actions as a Teenager I read the article. And then I kind of went off on the blog Facebook page. This is fucked up. And TLC is fucked up, too. If […]
Archives for May 2015
Maybe Some Of The (Unnecessary) Pressure Is Coming From Us
On Tuesday while I was volunteering at the polls for our town budget referendum, a woman asked me a question about how the schools were addressing, in her words, “the huge amount of stress that students are under.” I didn’t really have a good answer for her. For two reasons. One, I have no idea […]
It was time.
Yesterday I wrote this post about how I got rid of the blue glider that had been a big part of my life for the last ten years. I was a mess yesterday. Like, a disaster. I cried like a baby. A lot. Blue Glider had been upstairs in Number 6 and 7’s room, and my dad helped […]
Thanks for the Memories
Dear Blue Glider, I tried really, really, really hard to make the kids want to sit and rock with me as badly as I wanted to sit with them for as long as possible. But the inevitable has happened. The rocking days are over. So thank you. Thank you for being the calm and quiet […]
Don’t Be A Dumbass
I have made quite a few mistakes in my life. If I had to do it all over again though, I’m not sure I’d change too many things. Most of the questionable decisions I’ve made in the past forty five years have taught me quite a bit about the kind of person I hope to […]
Ain’t nobody got time to look for that. Again.
I am having issues with organization. I have been down this road before. About a year and a half ago, I went on a cleaning/purging/organizational binge, and for three weeks I went through my house room by room. But I had to stop exercising to do it. My house looked great. But my body didn’t. […]