Originally published at BlogFerret. Please leave any comments there.

In two weeks, I’ll be headed off to the Texas Renaissance Festival. Because I can’t actually leave my job, but I had some
( Read more... )

Originally published at BlogFerret. Please leave any comments there.

How about this: Don’t Bother.

I read a response to a parenting article on Happily Childfree today.  The author posts a response to a parenting article entitled “How to Stay Friends With Parents.” (The grammar in some of these articles needs to be ignored, by the way, possibly even ( Read more... )

Originally published at BlogFerret. Please leave any comments there.


( Read more... )

Originally published at BlogFerret. Please leave any comments there.

Today we did some errands and, as usual, couldn’t stop ourselves from visiting Half Price Books. I was so pleased to pick up an actual treasure: The Picayune’s Creole Cook Book - Sesquicentennial Edition! It contains 150 years worth of recipes compiles from The Times Picayune, the ( Read more... )

Originally published at BlogFerret. Please leave any comments there.


( Read more... )

Originally published at BlogFerret. Please leave any comments there.

If normal behaviour is increasingly being categorised as mental illness th
( Read more... )

Originally published at BlogFerret. Please leave any comments there.

[NOTE: This was two days ago. I think James came to pick me up for lunch or something.]

I just committed the most evil act. Therefore, like many criminals, I must now confess to the internet.
( Read more... )

Originally published at BlogFerret. Please leave any comments there.

“Achieving Your Goal, or The Care and Feeding of Your Elephant:  Part Three of How I Fight My Mood Disorder Every Day “


( Read more... )

Originally published at BlogFerret. Please leave any comments there.

I thought I’d post a frivolous something for National Poetry Month.

04/22/2010

Merging on Highway 183

I cursed as a saloon-like sedan pulled into my blind spot

just after I turned on the yellow clicking signal

to indicate my intent.

The dirty nickel sky hung low as I was propelled,
( Read more... )

Originally published at BlogFerret. Please leave any comments there.

“Making Peace With Your Elephant: Part Two of How I Fight My Mood Disorder Every Day”

When I was 21, I had been in treatment for depression on and off for about six years. At one appointment with my psychiatrist, I told her, “Well, I feel miserable. I feel like something is ( Read more... )