Yesterday, I finally faced down fear and bought a new phone. The old phone - assigned to me in 2015, I believe - was on its last legs. It had so little memory that, every time I needed to download a new app, I had to delete an old app. And, every time I told …
You Better Get Your Shit Together When I realize that I am, once again, lying in bed, chewing on my shroud, a rap song often comes into my mind with a chorus that goes something like this: 5 o’clock in the morning, where you gonna be(male voices, sullenly:) Out on the cornerYou better get yourself …
I am. Every morning, I wake up at 3 a.m. Sometimes I am able to use meditation techniques to stop ruminating. Sometimes, my mind is racing so much that I can’t stop it, and I toss and turn until the alarm goes off at 4:45. The worst part of this is that my cat senses …
This week, my husband is pod-visiting his elderly parents - one of the advantages of everyone being vaccinated is that they can all get together. One of the advantages for me is that I'm only demi-vaccinated now; so I had to stay home. Since my husband has been leaving the house fewer times than I …
Do you wake up some mornings, fully primed? Where your brain is already fully in thought about something? I'm not sure what started me this morning. I had been talking last night about all the people in my life - my sister, my sister-in-law, friends, the leader of my Toastmasters chapter, colleagues, random people I …
