a very special blog post. Today this blog’s social media accounts combined hit a big milestone. Over 7,000 people follow this blog through various social media accounts. I honestly feel like crying happy tears. This is the kind of milestone I could only dream about when I started blogging in September 2019. I have some
Category: Chosen Family
Today marks four years since I launched this blog. This post is a thank you to all the people who have helped make this blog possible. I hope you all will indulge me in these thank you’s and know I mean them from the bottom of my heart. The first goes to God: thank you
I have been through more difficult stuff in my life, than most people know or ever will. Have I made mistakes? I am human, so yeah, but the difficult stuff I survived was not my fault. I beat myself up over stuff that was not my fault for a long time…years. I thought I disappointed
Author’s Note: I apologize for a few less blog posts over the course of the last three weeks. This time has been chaotic, at best, and stressful and fear inducing at worst. I will explain why in a future blog post. Thank you for your patience and support. From here on out, unless specified, two
Tuesday was a difficult day for me. Overly tired from the day before and not having slept that well, I had a meltdown when I got back to my apartment Tuesday evening. I turned up one of my favorite albums and had a cathartic cry. While crying I prayed. Afterwards, I took my phone out
This blog post is special. It is the 300th blog post I have written. My mom was concerned when I started blogging, I would run out of ideas and/or topics to discuss with you all. I told her that would not happen. She was not convinced. I told her to watch where this journey was
Let me clear something up and be clear simultaneously: I do not have it all together. I have together. The people who know me best could tell you this better than I, but they will not. The people who know me best are my chosen family. I cannot hide what I am feeling from my
Someone suggested last week I was accepting my lot in life in terms of my CP. The ugly comments left me stunned and then angry. I needed some time to sort out and process my feelings, so that could turn such a negative experience into a positive. That is how I prefer to live my
Today, I helped Mama run errands. Before we could even get started the sliding door where the ramp is so I can get myself in and out without assistance malfunctioned again. I wanted to cry. Here we are again, I thought. The other thought racing through my mind was the van is basically new, it
Six years ago, yesterday I had a wide-ranging conversation with my chosen big brother I met in undergraduate. At one point, we were talking about my past. I sighed and got slightly emotional about talking about what and who I had not at that point to anybody. He said, “You know this is not your