And Here’s Where I Come Unglued (But Only a Little Bit)

I’m sitting alone in my Mom’s house. Not totally alone – thankfully I made the decision to bring my amazing friends – furbabies – spirits – Bella and Jo – I’d be more than a little bit unglued if they weren’t here.  But it’s all wrong nonetheless.  It’s wrong being here without my Mom. The [...]

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She’ll Have A Side of Clonazepam with Her Turkey

I can’t sugarcoat anything about my time at Mom’s this past week. Thanksgiving was miserable this year. And I can’t say I am surprised because my sister and I have known this was coming since Mom had her stroke but we’d been lulled into some sort of blissful ignorance.  Plus I had been unable to travel there [...]

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The Definition of Insanity

I joke about mental illness in my blog posts sometimes - I think I did this mostly as a coping mechanism for the bad bout ofdepression I dealt with last year.  But when you come face to face with a true debilitating mental illness, there is nothing at all funny about it and I was reminded of this at 3am last [...]

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