Ah, the holidays. I used to really like Christmas. Christmas music (the church-y kind I play at home, not the pop crap pumped into stores 24/7), Christmas movies (no matter how many times you see A Christmas Story, it’s still funny), Christmas trees and decorations, especially taking out ornaments that I’ve been hanging on the … [Read more…]
I have decided to take a short break from Facebook, for mental health reasons (see previous post). I really do like seeing baby pictures and stupid pet videos and random articles that I would otherwise never come across. (I especially love keeping in contact with friends in far-flung places.) But I’m not sure the good is outweighing the bad … [Read more…]
So it is November 20th, 2016. I feel slightly less hungover and shellshocked than I did on the morning of November 9th (when I spent most of the day hugging my toddler and tearfully apologizing to him over and over again for terrible, horrible, no-good decisions of the American electorate), but I am not quite approaching Acceptance … [Read more…]