Category: This is Us
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Thoughts on Afters and Nexts 2.0
Tomorrow is the last day of the 2021-2022 school year. The kids will say peace out to 9th and 10th grades by lunchtime, and by dinnertime the eldest will also be officially discharged from the outpatient mental heath program that has been that child’s only extracurricular activity since March. To say the least, June 16,…
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Strange Symmetry and “Stepping Down”
April 5, 2022, 6 years deep into treatment for depression and an anxiety disorder, and just one month into a partial hospitalization program to treat a crisis point in their mental health; my eldest child was officially “stepped down” from the full day program to the afternoon program.
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Social Distancing Week 34…Stuck In The Middle
Friday, November 6. 2020…10:07am The end of week 34. All week I’ve had snippets of the song “Stuck In The Middle With You” by Stealers Wheel running through my head. Clowns to the left of me – this entire debacle that is the 2020 presidential election, teenagers who clearly need some space from each other,…
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Social Distancing Week 15…The Week Things Got Real
Even though we’ve done everything “right” – we stayed home for weeks, we always wear masks when we go out, we social distance when we go out, we bathe in hand sanitizer and wash our hands constantly. We do all the things. All. The. Things. And yet my husband still picked up something and passed…
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Social Distancing Week 14…Wear The Damn Mask!
For the record….I am totally pro mask wearing. Also for the record….if you are still refusing to wear a mask (unless you have an actual health reason not to), I am completely judging your decision as selfish and shortsighted.
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Social Distancing Week 13…Kind of a Big Deal
By stripping away the people, pressures, and noise of the world, the man-child has been able to fully accept and own who he is and begin to claim his space in the world. It’s definitely a big deal.
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Social Distancing Week 12…With Privilege Comes Responsibility
Friday, June 5, 2020…7:17am The end of week 12. For those doing the math, that is 3 entire months. For. The. Love. At about week 2.5 I made an intentional decision to step away from the 24 hour news cycle. It was essential to my mental well being. That all changed this week. With the…
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Social Distancing Week 11….Gray. Blah. Sigh.
Friday, May 29, 2020…1:21pm The end of week 11. It’s a gray day. May Gray is what it’s called here in Southern California. It fits the general mood in our house this week. Gray. Blah. Sigh. I’m feeling a bit like Eeyore. My husband had outpatient surgery on Tuesday to remove bone spurs in an…
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Social Distancing Week 10…Core Memories
Friday, May 22, 2020…2:33pm The end of week 10. Double digits. No end in sight. Where we live in Los Angeles County, some things are slowly beginning to re-open, and yet it will still be months before we experience a full return to public life. That return to public life is almost visible on the…
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Social Distancing Week 9…Flying Low
Friday, May 15, 2020…10:16am The end of week 9. I said to somebody this week that I think we’ve all lived about one hundred lifetimes in the past 2 months. Turns out it’s exhausting work living through a global pandemic. It’s exhausting. I’m exhausted. In addition to the now normalized routine of work/school/life in a…
We're All A Little Broken 