I've been drinking lemonade. Tea with lemon Lemon juice with carbonated water Hot water with lemon and sugar. What I really want is an orange.
I’ve been
Holding back the vitriol in hopes of gaining some perspective about the teenage animal My Child. Wild, elusive, inconsistant baffling, frustrating, instigating volatile, persecuted, open then closed Resistant to reality, rebellious struggling to find self losing self when it gets too comfortable self sabotaging, maturing in his immaturity This stage of adolesence would be better…
Wishes
I can wish for mud to stomp in and throw like all good toddlers do. With glee and abandon mud splashes on clean shoes and white tights. Why not. Life is here to jump in it. Roll in it, share with friends. Mudbath anyone?
I take the good with the bad
I took a break from writing and the world fell in. Not really. All of us had some flu, then a virus, one case of upper respiratory infection and now I have head cold, 'cause life just wouldn't be fair without a winter cold. Girlie is happy and speaking more I walked into her room…
A minor coup
I backed up my computer named the fifty unnamed phantom documents floating on my desktop that stalled then crashed Text Edit After a hard shut down I repaired my disk permissions twice for luck found my external hard drive backed up everything then opened what used to be Simple Text Every time I click "Save…
Flaws
Craving a person to fill a hole, the space that never completely filled as a child Or, was hollowed out during the tumult of living with flawed adults I feel the void like my lungs can't completely fill with air when I have a chest cold A wanting seeping escape of air from the body…
Drifting
I feel like I have fallen into the fog it is more accurate to say the fog has descended upon me I can hear the waves lapping upon the shore, I look down and see grey mist not my feet nor water My relationship with pain is odd as an 'on the wagon' cutter, I…
Everyday Inspiration, Day Seven: Let Social Media Inspire You
This tweet arrived in an email: https://twitter.com/thisisEJKoh/status/420362403180597248 First of all, let me just say that I am appalled that the writing prompt is from a tweet. Oh, no, my age is showing again. I'm old and cranky. Sure, I have a Twitter account. No, I don't use it. I surreptitiously stalk my minor children there.…
Light days: Jennifer Tilly
(I wrote this a month ago - July 8, 2016) Today was to be a light day I succeeded in oversleeping misplacing medicine and missing the foodbank. Time to cut myself some slack. I'm down, overwhelmed and noon has yet to arrive. Girlie is watching Home on the Range. She deserves that "little patch…
August
Sure, I'm still working on the civility of being an overwhelmed mother of four who can barely carve time out of the day to write my blog. Sigh, I remember this stage. The squirrelly, I never leave the house just for me unless I have a doctor's appointment, feeling. Time for Girlie to go to…
