That is all.
Mental-health based blog, peppered with art, terrible Swedish music videos, observations on The Absurd & I hope just the right blend of silliness.
Wait, what?
Sitting in the window watching for my kids’ bus. A car pulls up and a boy, 7 or 8 in baseball getup, gets out and runs to the back of the house across the street. The car, silver, idles – a man inside. I start to hear pounding, as of fists on a door. The pitch […]
Quiet, Muted Despair
The depression is ingrained after so many years – there almost every day – but every day seems to have it’s own manifestation. I almost wish I was at my worst so I could hospitalize and be cared for. I wish I was dead but am not suicidal, the ideation is there but not the […]
Boston, Summer 1983 – Paper Girl ends my not-so-promising hoodlum career
A few more minor events stand out. There was a girl, 10 or 11, who had a paper route on North Beacon. My little gang – my Lebanese neighbors, a Jamaican girl from across the street – and I secretly mocked her. She must have been the only white girl in the neighborhood besides me. […]
Something lighter – Papercuts
Patrick Gannon is an American cut-paper artist who works and lives in Japan. His work has been shown in galleries throughout the US, Europe and Asia.
Waking the Dragon of Slumbering CPTSD
I didn’t know I had Complex PTSD until I was 36 years old. I deliberately turned off my trauma – tossed it, pretended it never happened – when Social Services removed my sister and I from our mother’s custody and placed us with our newly sober and forever ex-criminal father. We never talked about our […]
Not Quite Lost 
is true!!—big hugs
Right back at ya!!! Love, j
Crying again just to see that you’re still around. xoxo
Oh God, I’m so sorry!!!! I didn’t mean to upset anyone, I just, you know, post it as I see it. Day by day. I hope you are well when I’m not messing with your head! So sorry!
Life is good. Happy 4th
And you!!!!
I’m blogging about you today is that okay?
Of course, can’t wait to read it, just got home from work!
Yes. This.
xoxoxxx
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hey, that’s my home
Hooray!!!!!!
You scared the shit out of me – don’t do it again! Lots of love to you MM!
Jill, you are a treasure and I am so glad to have met you even though it’s a virtual meeting – Juliexxx
Hey, ya never know, I could show up any day disguised as an ostrich. No, something American…damnit, I can’t fly!