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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Mommy Guilt

Normally what one would expect to follow would be me talking about how my full-time job and all the other stuff I do makes me feel guilty about not spending as much time with my children as I should. Except that I don’t have human children (only quadrupeds…). I have a mother.  And mom has in her very [...]

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