Because of a story I told in one of last year's tater tot posts, I was looking for a picture of my hair for the April tater tot post to compare hair lengths to last year Allow me to explain. I wanted to document my current hair length to show how far I've come. I… Continue reading A Year of Reality
For most of my life, I was afraid that if I told someone about something I wanted to do, I would fail at it. For example, if I said, “My blog will be successful!” it would mean unequivocal failure. Because by declaring it, I was being overly confident, and thus inviting failure. I was being… Continue reading Universe-Ism #2 -Pity Party for Zero
That’s the understatement of the century. Normally, bloggers like to make an end of the year wrap-up to review what took place over the previous 12 months. Do YOU want to discuss it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9bxHt7yDMo Even though it was a difficult year, there were some significant events that happened in my life. I turned 50 in… Continue reading What a Year
I told a friend last week that I'll be entering menopause on September 23rd, and she was surprised because she thought I'd already been in menopause, and I was like, oh no, no, no, that was PERI-menopause. The calm before the storm, but in this case, the calm is actually the storm. She had no… Continue reading September 23rd
I started writing the word facebook with the little letter f, rather than the capital letter f because I didn't want to give it the power it didn't deserve. Because it has robbed me of my power for the previous 12 years. This has been especially true since March. I needed to take a break… Continue reading Giving facebook the Big F-You
Menopause cry journal, courtesy of Mary Ruefle.I have something very similar—except mine is a migraine journal filled with big black M’s instead of C’s. Two weeks ago, a friend texted me a link to an article by Mary Ruefle titled Pause. Mary Ruefle wrote her essay Pause in 2015 about her experience with menopause. That… Continue reading Understood
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