I feel like such a mess this week. I'll venture to use the phrase "feeling blue," but I worry that it might be more. I thought I was doing fairly well, then more medical bills came from my surgery and threw me for a loop. While the bills are discouraging, they are something we … [Read more...]
Poetry to Feed My Melancholy
I picked up a book of poetry recently. My husband noted my choice of reading material and said something like "You're reading poetry. You must be feeling depressed." He didn't mean it as a slam. I was feeling depressed. And reasonably so. Something about poetry feeds my … [Read more...]
3 Months
Depending on what you're talking about, 3 months can feel like a blink of an eye or an eternity. Your newborn baby is 3 months before you know it, but the 3 months until you turn 16 moves at a snail's pace. 3 months of winter can feel never ending, but 3 months of summer feels … [Read more...]
Today
Today I scrubbed down the kitchen and cleaned out the fridge. It felt sort of therapeutic to scrub things down and consider starting next week anew. Today, I still cringe whenever I think of saying the word out loud. I've done it when talking to friends, but I despise it. Maybe … [Read more...]
Fragile
I've wondered if writing this post would make things better or worse. I've written a bit lately about raw, honest blogs I admire such as Rosmarinus Officinalis and The Mother Load. Wife to the Rock Star from Storing Up Treasures visited my blog recently and I discovered her … [Read more...]
