I feel like I’ve been sick for-ever! And I don’t like it. I don’t think. No, I don’t like it. Except… I can remember being a new mom and wishing I could have a horrible illness. Not one that would make me feel really bad. Just one bad enough that I’d have to be hospitalized […]
Category: Women’s Issues
June is hard for me. As the season changes and the weather brightens, I find myself every year in a bit of a funk. My dad died in June, the day before Father’s Day, fourteen years ago, and I still grieve his loss. We all know, Americans don’t do death well, and I am an […]
If parenting teaches you anything, it is that you have control over exactly nothing. Like writing, for instance. I had been writing a post about Wonder Woman—the new one, the old ones and myself. I had a great start. About a page and a half. Then I remembered I was a Mom. Or, rather, I […]
Spring has arrived! The sun came out last weekend, and I worked out in my garden pulling, and chopping and snipping to death everything I deemed out of place or unsightly (how dare they!) But this weekend truly marked the start for me – Memorial Day Weekend. In Seattle, we are used to too long, […]
I woke this morning to the news that CNN was projecting Republican Greg Gianforte as the winner of the special election for Montana’s open US House seat, defeating Democrat Rob Quist. Just the day before, Gianforte was charged for allegedly assaulting a reporter, an audio of which has been blasting Facebook and assaulting all our […]
Just a woman trying to figure this all out.