When I was a little girl in Massachusetts, I often played in the woods with my neighborhood friends, climbing over moss-covered stones in the cool, damp understory to collect earthy trinkets and play adventure games. The…
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Funny thing happened this summer. I died. It didn’t happen suddenly. It was a slow death I should have seen coming. A series of events, one after the other, that combined to take me away,…
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Things have happened in the world. I have felt sad about them. Sometimes, I’ve felt angry. Other times…nothing. Things have happened in my life. I have felt happy about them. Sometimes, I’ve felt proud. Other times…shrug.…
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Yeah, I said it. For reasons unbeknownst to me (but perhaps knownst to you), there’s a huge stigma against psychiatric medication. You’re never supposed to admit that you’re taking pills for a mental illness, an addiction,…
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It’s been one year since I started this here blog, and a lot has gone down since December of 2013. There have been some tragedies, including a second miscarriage and the death of my cousin, but…
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On Monday, I lay on the floor of my office rolling over a tennis ball, trying to break up the tightness still present in my back nearly a week after my second epidural shot. With no…
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This week is a tricky one for me. On the one hand, it marks the six-year anniversary of my wedding to Alex—one of the happiest moments of my life, next to the birth of my son…
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It was the summer after 9/11 in downtown New York. I had just graduated from NYU and, with my fancy degree, was working as a cocktail waitress while I tried to “make it” as a dancer.…
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Or very nearly do. I’d categorize this latest bout of stress and anxiety brought on by the BlogHer conference as a “near-miss.” Over the last week, I bit off a little more salami than I could…
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So life carries on. So on and so forth. A tragedy happens (again) and rocks your world and for a while you watch it go by on the sidelines. You sit behind a haze of grief…
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