Category Archives: Crazy Me

It Ain’t Easy

A post I wrote back in May: Marshall overslept one morning last week. I woke him up, but not in time for him to catch the school bus. I told him that he could take a mental health day if … Continue reading

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6/14/2024

Today was Marshall’s last day of the 2023-2024 school year! So of course he missed the bus this morning…. Monday is an optional school day for Livia, but I think she’s going to go for the Flag Day activities. I … Continue reading

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New Default

I am a quiet and non-confrontational person. Consequently I try to avoid talking about political issues, particularly among people with whom I’m likely to disagree. But sometimes I end up in those kinds of conversations despite my best efforts. When … Continue reading

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Gotta Go With What You’ve Got

The silent blog might have made it seem as if I’d dropped off the face of the earth, but I am still here, still alive, barely. Lack of sleep is really messing me up. It’s not just that I’m forced … Continue reading

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Family Talk

I got an automated call the other day. It was supposedly from the hospital with which I have a pay dispute. The robotic voice asked me to call the hospital back at their “business office,” but the phone number it … Continue reading

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Tired of the Silence

Today I was thinking about the idea that I’d had for a novel, and I decided that I would sit down and try to write for a moment, just to see what would happen. I opened up Scrivener, my go-to … Continue reading

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2/28/2024

I started learning how to write music in canon, and it’s sort of amazing. It’s a perpetual music machine. You can cap it off, but the potential is always there to go on and on and on, forever, into musical … Continue reading

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It’s All in the Decorations

Back when the kids were really young, I was hoping to be able to turn my office into a sort of magical place for them. I ran out of steam (and money) and gave up on the dream. I had … Continue reading

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Said Is Simplest

Cleaning off my desk, I found a printout with the title “Said is Dead.” It’s a list of words that can be used as speech identifiers in place of “said.” As a writer, I think it’s a handy list. But … Continue reading

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Thoughts for Today 2/16/2024

For the last three weeks or so I have been slaving away at work, not because of any demand from my employer, but for my own purposes. My goal is to free up time so that I can do some … Continue reading

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