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. She was surprised—she thought I’d already been in menopause. I laughed and said, oh no, no, no, that was perimenopause.The calm before the storm, but in this case, the calm was actually the storm. She had no idea what menopause was.… 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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