Here I am, again, writing more about the divorce. I just have a few stands to make on my soapbox, and then I will stand down. Promise. This is for a few friends who might need it. If you're bored, please skip!

I’ll put it bluntly: I needed to leave my ex and yet I was completely, utterly terrified for years to do so. Here’s why:

• Child.

My son ( Read more... )

It occurs to me (post quirkytizzy’s question) that I’ve never written a single, unified post about The Wastrel and why I divorced him. I guess that would be because we were together for three or four years before we got married, and then we were married for 16 years before we separated. That’s either 19 or 20 years of the small, accumulated moments ( Read more... )

Saturday was International Women's Day, which Sheryl Sandberg on down acknowledged via Google Doodle, but being busy with work and family things, it took me a few days to write this. Bear with me here and please forgive lack of flow. I actually wrote a much longer post that included a bit about how we inhabit three bodies, but I removed it to spare ( Read more... )

Q1: How many times do I have to nicely ask the children to play downstairs so I can work ( Read more... )

Today was full of simple pleasures thanks to my wonderful L ( Read more... )

Let's see here... sabotabby gave me C.

Something I hate: Cancer. Fuck cancer and everything to do with it.

Sigh. Hard to continue after that.

Something I love: The cello, and pretty much anything played on it. My current favorite: Zoe Keating http://www.zoekeating.com/

Somewhere I have been: ( Read more... )

30 minutes snatched away from work for myself, prior to going downstairs to ride the bike and trick my body into parting with a few fat cells... what, oh what to write about ( Read more... )

Blah. Sick instead. But I will dance all over the living room again one day, dammit! I couldn't swing any alone-time yesterday, as I had a lot of work during the day, and I had the kids all evening while L was at his jewelry making class (I'm excited about this, as he has artistic talent he's never really explored before, and it's a really nice ( Read more... )

A while ago I realized that unless I spend a little time each week with my therapist, I'm not going to be able to maintain my own sanity in the face of all the stresses I've been under: over-work, worry about finances vis-a-vis Adam's college costs, Jo's OCD (which is much better this week, thank God!), and some things that had been challenging to ( Read more... )

Today I presented reports on two separate studies in a four-hour period in front of no fewer than 20 people per group, on less than 5 hours sleep. And I rocked both presentations. Oh yeah ( Read more... )