Mental-health based blog, peppered with art, terrible Swedish music videos, observations on The Absurd & I hope just the right blend of silliness.
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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.
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 […]
Should you decide to write again, I’ll be here to read. xoM
No, don’t go! I’m still here! People probably just thought you’d stopped blogging.
Some are still here.
I am sorry I missed you….
Let us know if you go elsewhere! I had to shut down hellosailor (becase PEOPLE are ARSEHOLES) but I have bonjourmarin.wordpress.com now. I’m not as hardcore at writing, I don’t have the time, but I still read and miss people when they go 😦 xox
Hey! We’re still here!
Well, I don’t know if you still check this blog or not but I just wanted to tell you I often think of you. I came to visit a couple of times and found the blog gone. I worried but didn’t know who to ask. Unfortunately I missed your comeback and now you’re gone again.
I sincerely hope you are doing well!
Thanks SSG, always loved following you. I am on a new med & doing really well 🙂 I hope you are great!
Oh, that makes me so happy! I am very happy for you!
I hope it continues like that! 🙂