From the category archives:
I wanted to start this by answering some of the comments I didn’t have a chance to respond to.
Susan, I can think of no higher compliment than you taking your time to read through my archives. Thank you.
Kristen, the fact that you left a comment, “Haunting, beautifully so. ” is amazing, especially considering that’s how [...]
' October 3rd, 2008 at 09:03pm 2 comments
For whatever reason, I wish for this to be mostly a stand alone entry. I would say to those of you who haven’t been longtime readers, or those who weren’t willing to pick through the archives (and I can’t say I blame you. I tried to do it once and almost decided to delete [...]
' September 16th, 2008 at 08:45pm 5 comments
Friday I had a doctor’s appointment that I had planned on canceling but had forgotten. I got dressed and went even though I didn’t want to talk about my back, or my depression and anxiety, or my should I keep it? uterus. When they called my name I walked in and after [...]
' April 28th, 2008 at 11:03am 13 comments
I have been asked, countless times now, to describe my depression. I was never able to articulate it. Today I was thinking about it as I loaded yet another load of soiled clothes into the washer and I remembered that line from John Irving’s amazing book “The World According To Garp” “Beware [...]
' March 30th, 2008 at 05:25pm 6 comments
For the past several days Alex has been on vacation. It was easy to feel as if I was on vacation too, except for the pesky things like dishes still piling up and the kids calling out that we were out of clean towels, again. I could really get used to having a [...]
' January 22nd, 2008 at 07:56pm 2 comments