Twelve days ago I decided to go dark. By the time I got here, I was already over it, six ways to Sunday. The stress, the anger, the division, the constant fear-bombing. I woke up early on November 5th, eager to cast my vote once and for all, to seal the coffin of my anxiety. … Continue reading The Nuclear Option
Life
Lessons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Pr1_v7hsw I heard this Foreigner song on the radio the other day. Takes me back to high school, on the sports bus on our way home from a wrestling meet. Todd and I might have been sitting together snuggling in the darkened bus, the rumbling white noise of the engine, surrounded by hushed voices and … Continue reading Lessons
The Sands Are Shifting
There are days I feel like my head is down to the pavement and I’m plowing ahead on autopilot, and then there are the days – ever increasing – where something is working spiritually behind the scenes and more and more I am feeling and becoming something unspoken. Something propelled by unconscious, unseen forces and … Continue reading The Sands Are Shifting
Another Trip Around the Sun
Celebrated another trip around the sun and shamelessly posted the best selfie I could take in a GenX group, along with dozens of fellow Geminis. I don’t recall seeing so many birthday posts over the year and of course it would be all us Geminis who crave attention and affirmations of aging well. I’m not … Continue reading Another Trip Around the Sun
A Good Place
I dreamed the other night that I was in Martha Stewart’s house cleaning up piles of dog poop. It wasn’t even my dog’s poop. It wasn’t even Martha’s dog’s poop. The culprit was one of Martha’s friends’ dogs. The next thing I know I’m thoroughly scrubbing her bathroom because it’s dirty. Apparently Martha’s standards are … Continue reading A Good Place
Full Moon Shenanigans
The Full Moon Energy post was missing the very best part of my week! I cannot believe I already forgot about Betty. Had an adventure this morning It was scary And sad Oh? Shug still alive? Yes, lucky for her As I was leaving for work this morning, among a series of … Continue reading Full Moon Shenanigans
Full Moon Energy
It’s been a while so let’s just jump right in. Not much changes, really, except that apparently my Easter gift to the neighborhood rabbits is tulips. All but one of them, from my observation. The lone tulip resides in the backyard, which is about as safe to a rabbit as swimming in the Nile. Shuggie … Continue reading Full Moon Energy
Three Years Later: Who Loves a Parade?!
Three years since March 12, 2020, when everyone was talking about this mysterious illness that no one knew anything about other than it was potentially deadly. It was three years ago on a Thursday that Veruca’s school announced a two-week closure starting Monday, when I decided that she wasn’t going to school on Friday. Three … Continue reading Three Years Later: Who Loves a Parade?!
Rain in Random Places
It’s raining again. I live in an area that used to get snow that now never seems to and I don’t know if I’ve mentioned before how much more I hate rain since these two dogs moved in. Worse than when I lived in New York, and that’s saying something. I went to work today, … Continue reading Rain in Random Places
I Take It Back
My “passive PT” has been increased to three days a week because Tuesday it appeared I was on my way to a phenomenon known as “frozen shoulder.” Frozen sounds innocuous enough. I mean, so you can’t move your shoulder, right? Okay, so not terrible, right? A little PT will fix that baby right up. Read … Continue reading I Take It Back
The Tara Chronicles 