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Grateful
With the 10 days at home for the first time in so long, we were able to recover in ways I’m not sure I realized we needed. We were weirdly tired, but we didn’t even realize it until about day five. I realized I was feeling resentful of the time lost toward the end of the 10 days. And that made me really sit with that emotion. It’s ugly and painful, and not all that helpful, honestly. But…
Over a Week At Home
We’ve been home for over almost two weeks for the first time since October 2024. Yay! We didn’t realize how exhausted we were until now. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed the World Cup festivities in Downtown Fort Worth. Today when we walked down to the Square, families were there enjoying the misters and fans and the splash fountain. I’ll miss seeing people from around the world here for the…
Analysis Paralysis
Sorry I haven’t been posting my story starters as regularly. Two were just not fun. And then I stumbled onto something fresh and new and exciting, and that’s all I’m saying about that. In my part-time job I started this growth mindset journey that includes ways for me to move forward. In doing that I learned I suffer horribly from something called Analysis Paralysis/Ambiguity Paralysis. I knew…
Another sad day
Years ago one of my amazing principals said trans kids have always existed and we work to make them safe just like we work to make all kids safe. He said that in a meeting with us because the attorney general had tried to convince our district to be part of his bathroom bill push. That was years ago. Republicans had started their campaign to demonize trans kids and start their fear mongering…
The Story
Another story start by me. When your house blows up, and your man is inside the police, the police they have questions. Dave: Ma, you tellin that story about Doug again? Ma: That’s Dave. He’s always trying to tell stories his way. Dave: the right way. Ma: so anyway, the house blew up and Dave: the police had lots of questions. Mostly because of Doug, that dirty dog. Ma; that’s right. He…
Called
Another work of fiction by me. The first time I saw a dragon I’d eaten a handful of gummies I thought were regular candy but they were actually the special kind my best friend and roommate kept on hand to help with her anxiety. That was ten years ago. I pinch my arm. Yep. Wide awake. “Hey Charlie. Remember that time you asked me if I saw the flying lizard outside your bedroom window?” I…
Compliance
Fiction by me. Still trying something new. The world as we knew it ended at 9:16 on a Thursday. We didn’t know it yet. In fact, I was sitting in a seminar explaining the merits of teaching classics like Moby Dick to today’s teen readers. The speaker’s premie went like this: biblical allegories were essential to curriculum and reading long, boring works trained young brains for excellence. The…
Gone
Fiction by me “I heard they found the body behind the stacks of mulch at the Hardware store on Main. The one across from the Mexican restaurant that went viral for their lunch specials.” I add a few more freckles to my cheeks while trying to figure out what my best friend was talking about. She’s obsessed with true crime. And she’s obviously not alone since she hit 500k on TikTok last…
Alarms 2
Another work of flash fiction by me. The bright rays of sunlight invaded my sleep like a bomb exploding in the midst of my comfy feathery perfection. Shit. Sun. I turned my head and squinted at the numbers on my phone and my stomach plummeted in response. I’d forgotten to set the damn alarm. “I’ve got to get up!” I smacked my hand to the left at the same time I started the mad scramble from…
Trying Something New
This is a work of fiction. ALARMS by me I roll over trying not to be annoyed by the crispy wrinkles of the supposedly cooling sheets. Alone. Again. But I hear kitchen noises and smell the smells. The pan smacking the glass top stove. The grinder. The smoky deliciousness of applewood bacon. Coffee. He doesn’t even drink coffee. I should just get up. Walk in there barefoot and say thank you.…
Silence is Complicity
Your children and grandchildren and great grand children will ask how you responded when the President of the United States first declared war on states that dared to vote against him. They’re going to know the names of those ICE kills. Don’t let your answer be that you were silent, that you went on about day to day life as if nothing were different, that you voted for themso even when it became…
Happy 21st Blogging Anniversary
21 years ago I started a Live Journal blog to talk about weight loss, parenting, education and writing. At that time my daughter had the same rights I’d grown up with and my granddaughters weren’t even a thought. At that time I regularly blogged about the dangers of a testcentric education system and how it narrowed the curriculum. At that time I wrote about how hard weight loss was for me and…
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What They’ve Done
What infuriates me about maga is how most of them are older and they reaped the benefits of the feminist movement and choice and the Civil Rights movement and Pell Grants. They thrived in strong public schools and had access to affordable healthcare. They were vaccinated for free and their kids were too. They lived a successful middle class life and enjoyed vacations to places like the beach and…
Profit isn’t always king
Years ago I took a course on commons through Wesleyan University. It was the first time I’d heard of the term commons defined as the spaces we use for collective good of our society. Parks and public schools fall into this category. As an extension so do police and fire departments and public hospitals, you know, the services we pay taxes to receive. During the course we learned about how US…
Thankful
Today a friend on TikTok asked us it we were thankful for today and I had to pause. Fortunately I am able to start work a little later today and I was able to get my pool time in because even though I’m working out, it gives me time to reflect. Even though the US is less right now with a totally lawless administration that is robbing the taxpayers blind and jailing immigrants in work camps who…
Truly Miraculous
Today Dad used his cane to walk into his doctor’s appointment. He’s off oxygen. He’s cooking and cleaning and doing the chores he did before all this started. He sounds better than he’s sounded since the emergency pacemaker surgery in October. He looks good too. I’m so, so thankful!
Dad Update
He’s doing so much better. The pulmonologist started him on a steroid he uses with the nebulizer and it did the trick. He is getting around great. The hypoxia caused a brain injury, but the neurologist said it should be healed in five months. He’s had lots of improvement the last couple weeks. Something I’ve learned that’s super important about taking care of seniors is they talk about poop a…