Mental Health
PSYCHIATRIZED, MY BOOK & HOW TO ORDER
During COVID quarantine, I decided it was time to finish my memoir. And so I did. I’m thrilled to announce the release…
In Case You Want To Know Where I’ve Been
Some of you may have been wondering where I have been since my blog abruptly stopped back in August 2013. Let me…
Cracking Writer’s Block with EMDR
As a child, I was supposed to keep my room neat. My bed needed to be made the moment I awoke each…
Losing My Gourd: A #LessonLearned by Amy Stevens
Amy Stevens writes about a spaghetti squash. …
Guest Post by Megan Killinger: Lessons From The Spectrum
This personal narrative was written by Megan Killinger, a student in one of my Composition-101 classes during the Fall-Winter 2010 semester….
Lessons in Losing Things
I said to my boy: “And just so you know, assuming you live a long time – and I hope you do – you are going to lose stuff. A lot. It happens. I lose things all the time. I write notes to myself on slips of paper and they disappear. I don’t know where they go. I lose bills and receipts. Bottom line is, you have to know that you are going to lose shit, and you have to know it’s not worth losing your shit when you lose something.”
He giggled.
“What?” I asked.
“You said the ‘s-word’ a lot.”
He’s 10….