emotions

The Wall

May 8, 2013

Family relationships are never easy.  They’re even harder when the people we love have untreated mental illness and almost a century of emotional baggage that makes my thirty one years of such baggage look minuscule in comparison.  It has only been in the past two years that I’ve really come to grips with the fact that this is [...]

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An Unknown Territory

April 29, 2013

I have several irrational fears.  It’s one of my quirks.  It also allows me to be so charmingly self-deprecating.  There’s something so fun about a person who can have fun at her own expense.  This is probably why I can’t stand people who take themselves too seriously. One of my biggest irrational fears has to [...]

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The Ease of External Problems

March 20, 2013

I am a bit obsessed with apocalyptic and dystopian fare.  If I would let myself, I could get lost in stories of a vast variety of apocalyptic scenarios.  I love the story of The Stand by Steven King.  I am hooked on The Walking Dead and even going to attempt reading the comics, despite having trouble reading comics generally. The [...]

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Healing is Gross

November 8, 2012

Yesterday, I decided my part in the continuing Saga of the Never Ending Rash was too large and went back to the dermatologist…who promptly told me that there wasn’t much she could do, but here’s a new prescription cream to try.  Thanks a pantload.  But as I sat relatively naked on the exam table (always a fun feeling), I [...]

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The Infinite To Do List

October 18, 2012

This blog post will start with a description and a confession. I like making lists.  Hell, that’s why there’s a Random Thoughts day here at PCL and the occasional “I Believe” segment.  I like lists because they organize things in a way that my brain can understand and comprehend.  It also makes life so much [...]

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The Difference Between Moods, Superstitions and Something More

August 13, 2012

It’s at the point where it is undeniable that I have been in a funk lately.  So I’ll stop denying it. I’m in a funk. There.  All should be better in the world now that it is admitted.  Right? Right? Yeah, I guess not. And this should be the point at which you start asking [...]

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Emotional Ignorance

February 16, 2012

Almost inevitably when a celebrity dies or gets in trouble with the media, there’s a few waves of reaction that can be counted on like clockwork. First, there is the shock and awe stage where it seems like everyone on Facebook and Twitter is talking about it.  People either come out to vilify the living [...]

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Random Thoughts: The Writing for my Sanity Version

February 2, 2012

Do you ever have one of those mornings when you wake up and realize all of the things you need to accomplish and then decide that the only way you’ll get through it is by sheer luck?  Yeah, I’m having one of those mornings.  I can’t say anything new happened to start it, but I [...]

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The Fall Day I’ll Never Forget

November 18, 2011

Today was supposed to be the twins‘ due date. I wrote about it yesterday on the infertility blog, but I thought it would be disingenuous to not talk about it over here.  Obviously it’s on my mind and writing open letters to Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher about how we saw their break up coming [...]

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Another Year

November 8, 2011

I can remember most everything about that day.  November 8, 2010 changed so many things. Last year at this time we were rushing to the hospital to see The Mister’s Father, Jerry.  It wasn’t a frenzied hurry that usually accompanies dire circumstances.  The Mister had been at the hospital until three in the morning and [...]

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