Yesterday was one of the toughest days I have had in a while. That is saying something. Everything, seemingly, that could go wrong went wrong. Yesterday had every single, typical, response from me: frustration, tears, feeling like I was not enough/doing enough, angry at myself for feeling like any of what happened yesterday was my
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Authors note thank you for your patience with me and the writing of this blog post. Since Thursday, life has been chaotic for my immediate family, and I. Everything is going to be fine. However, I needed to focus on family more than writing until today. Now onto the block post I had planned to
Erin Napier from HGTV’s Hometown inspired this post. Thanks Erin! On Instagram before the new year, she said she, her husband Ben, and their friends all agreed their children were not getting cell phones or using social media while they were growing up. Erin’s post made me think about how different I would be as
Many people with CP have food challenges. By challenges, I mean food texture issues. Am I immune to this CP side effect? Obviously, from the title of this post the answer is no. Thankfully my food texture aversions are mild. Watermelon, okra, oranges, and egg yolks are my biggest ones. I do have an added
The past two months have triggered my trauma in many ways. I thought I had dealt with some of the trauma that’s come to the surface already. Turns out, dealing with trauma and unpacking it is a process of dealing with emotional and physical response landmines. Dealing with trauma and healing from it is not
I want to wish all my followers in the US a very Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow. Please celebrate safely. This year I find myself even more grateful than usual. This has been a very rough year for my blood family and I. In some ways, it feels like this year went by in the blink of
Yesterday was three years since I pushed launch on 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:
I have been feeling uninspired lately. That is hard for me to admit. Inspiration is so important for the work I do now that being honest about feeling uninspired feels a little uncomfortable to say the least. Being honest is also important in the work I do so I just I’m going to be honest.
I am working on being more comfortable and more vulnerable around the people who love me. My default is to say I am OK when I am not. I do not want to burden anybody with my problems because life is hard for everybody. what I am learning is that by being vulnerable with the
Kirk, my paternal grandfather, who I called granddaddy was a wealth of wisdom. He was a man of few words but when he did talk people listened to him me most of all. For those of you who don’t know, he had Parkinson’s disease the whole time I had the pleasure of knowing him on