This week, I’m down. Over the last couple of years, I’ve been able to better notice my mood cycles, and this summer it has become a little easier to step back and (almost) (sort of) look at them from the outside. No, there really isn’t anything significant that has changed this week to make it […]
Category Archives: Life
Unspoken Rules
A conversation with some other moms with spectrum sons reminded me of my early experiences in the workplace. My first real full-time job was working as a secretary for an intellectual property law firm outside of D.C. I started out as a temp, then got hired full-time to be the primary secretary for two younger […]
Fighting Perfectionism in Paganism
A friend of mine posted this blog this morning about the mommy wars. To sum up, the author points out that feelings of inadequacy tend to prompt tired, stressed moms to lash out against each other over trivial differences in lifestyle and parenting. She then goes on to lead with her Christian faith, reminding that […]
Roadside Abuse
Ragan Chastain blogged about her experience with this: I was five miles into a nine mile training walk for my upcoming marathon when your car pulled up beside me, I didn’t think much of it until I heard you yell “HEY FAT BITCH!” I stopped and turned to look at you and you took that […]
Busy Busy
It seems like I’ve been heading out to do something, somewhere, every day lately. Getting up early (for me), rushing out of the house, not getting into bed until 2 or 3 in the morning. Everything has started to slide. Blog posts don’t happen when I’m busy running around. The past few days, even devotions […]
Like Night and Day
I’ve finally figured out what’s been wrong the last I don’t know how many years. Why I’m just not getting things done, why I end up sitting half the day in front of the computer, why I don’t seek out field trips with the kids, why I don’t go to park days, why I hate […]
Release
Last fall, I participated in a ritual that led me to renounce my ties to the past. My reason was that they were holding me back, binding me, keeping me from evolving and moving forward. My thought at the time was about my ties to Texas. I felt I needed to let go of those […]
A Day in the Life
From Gods’ Mouths 2.0: We want to hear about what a day in your spiritual, magical, or devotional practice looks like. My daily practices are always in flux, as I think they are for most of us. As we grow and learn, we drop practices that no longer serve us, and pick up new ones […]
Random Bits and Bobs
Kender’s party went really well, better than I expected. I only invited three good friends, but the house was full, food and soda were consumed in large quantities, and Kender ended up with more presents than he could open in one evening. Which isn’t saying much, I guess, since he still needed to be coaxed […]
Wish list
I wish for all my children to grow up and live happy, independent lives, by whatever path that may take and however that may look. I wish I had the extra cash to pay for the online teachers to supervise my kids’ schoolwork. I wish I could hire somebody to come into my house and […]