Category: Depression

  • Holidays Are Coming . . .

    As we enter the typically most stressful time of the year (for the US, anyway), I am forced to review my life (again). Family circumstances have changed: there have been deaths, there have been kids going to college, there are kids learning to drive. Injuries that didn’t seem like much…

  • IWSG November 2024

    November 6 question – What creative activity do you engage in when you’re not writing? Ummmmmm . . . .that would be everything except writing. Sewing, spinning, crochet, getting into some knitting, weaving, occasionally a junk jewelry moment, dabbling in video (not very well, but that’s kinda the point). .…

  • Brain Not Braining

    Why is everything so hard!?!?!?!? I’ll be the first one to say that my subconscious brain will turn every single mouse-turd task that’s out of the ordinary chores list into a free-climb up K2 with no equipment, but now I’m getting pissed about it. And getting pissed about it doesn’t…

  • Co-Morbidities Suck

    How many layers does this onion have? Damn. 2 years ago, the total body pain and physical fatigue had gotten to a quality-of-life point. For 20 years, I’d dealt with increasing joint pain throughout my whole body. I was at a point where I was in bed 16 hours a…