So hi there. Happy Star Wars Day (may the fourth be with you!). It's been a long time since I blogged anything. I can't count how many times I thought about blogging but then just...didn't. The truth is that I am sick ...
Tag Archive: stress
Aug
30
Chickety China the Chinese Chicken
A week ago I was still sucking on cigarettes. Then on Tuesday, it looked as if Mom was going to come home from the hospital after 15 days stuck in that building. Doctors and respiratory therapists said things to my mother like, "If you go home and start smoking again, you're going to wind up ...
Jun
04
In or Out?
I've been through a metric shitton of therapy, both individual and group, to varying degrees of success. Spent two years in an intensive outpatient program (IOP), in fact. Grief recovery and suicide prevention was the main focus. Most everyone in that ...
May
02
Paralyzed
Having watched a lot of B- and C-grade schlocky horror movies, there's one theme that I find myself cringing at time and time again. It's where someone is administered a dose of curare (or some other paralyzing agent), which renders them unable to move, yet totally aware and conscious of ...
Feb
12
It’s Gonna Keep on Happening Until You Power Down That Bucket of Neuroses, Inebriation-Style
Tuesday night, Mom and I had our first TNT night out since her accident. The TNT's, for those that don't know, are otherwise known as the Dynamite Divas. In my head, I call them the Tuesday Night Supper Club, but it's basically the Meatsuite mentality...just a couple decades down the line. Every Tuesday, the TNT's gather ...
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I’m a writer. A lover, not a fighter. An amateur philosopher who enjoys shaving giraffes and dancing around my living room in my boxers.