Australia killed social media today for under 18. YEA AUZZIES! My almost 24 yr old daughter came downstairs Saturday morning giggling with glee. She told my husband and I she was ‘so excited!’ Something ‘great’ had happened. She was in a car accident 1.5 yrs ago that is resulting in a lawsuit, and I thought … Continue reading Parenting Social Media
NEW RELEASE! Coloring Book and Greeting Cards is here: https://amazon.com/dp/173254316X https://vimeo.com/1107124632 This Coloring Book is a Garden of Creative Possibilities Inside this book are canvases of botanicals imagined by the mathematical beauty of fractals, and hand-drawn from nature. Whether you’re attracted to symmetry, or wild, spiraling complexity, each design invites you to pause and see … Continue reading Flowering Fractals Coloring Book is Here!
Last night my husband got very sick. He was vomiting simultaneously with diarrhea and shat himself. He was restless through the night and got up early, clearly still feeling ill. This morning when I came downstairs I asked him how he was feeling. Not so great, he told me. Still have diarrhea, but I’m not … Continue reading The Internet is God
I’m scared out of my mind, though I suppose I shouldn’t be. Cancer is not unexpected. I’ve been waiting for the diagnosis for years. Still, when I felt the tenderness in my breast a month ago I passed it off as a pulled muscle from weightlifting. I tried to ignore it last week too, told … Continue reading Looking for Cancer
A journal entry to my 7-year-old daughter on the nature of women and men… I have this lump in my throat as I write this. I want to cry, for the ‘Thousand Slights’ you’ll suffer, my baby. I want to shield you from that pain. But I can’t. And it makes me feel helpless and hopeless and … Continue reading A Thousand Slights
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6urKqKjoVLnSq5CX7HivF3?si=htfLrDsQSbywYlUjxyM5fg Actor, Robin Williams; Fashion designer, Kate Spade; Chef, Anthony Bourdain all killed themselves. Prodigal computer hacktivist, Aaron Swartz, hung himself at 26 years old. Miss USA, Chelsi Smith, is the most recent 'influencer' suicide as of this writing. In 2020, it's estimated 1.2 million of U.S. attempted suicide, and over 126 a day actually … Continue reading Why to Choose Living
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1OQMrhdQTm1rjz8TTB6gPU?si=UNv6gWBMSsC8zLnExI1d8g I imagine when all is black in my head and heart, I'll write something brilliant that justifies the darkness within. But when I'm depressed like this, I can not motivate myself to create, or do anything beyond succumbing to my sadness. This essay is simply on depression, living with it in a world that wears … Continue reading Living with Depression
For Lisa, my BFF since elementary school, until her other took over... --- https://open.spotify.com/episode/60vOOmeYWu2KI86YFIgxsX?si=CpZsD7u9S9aPHVbI-90How I haven't always been mentally ill. I've always been on the fringe of the norm, the glass wall between me and humanity kind of thing, but I didn't feel myself start to fragment until my mid-twenties. The first time it happened … Continue reading Chemically Sane
