Some short housekeeping. How is a human being supposed to deal with their mental health during a chronic illness flare up? This is a question I am pondering today, as I am 2 days without psych medication. This is not due to a med error, but instead due to the fact that I haven’t … | Continue reading
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Life is wild. One minute, you think everything is going to be fine and dandy and then the next someone rips the rug out from underneath you and you are flat on your back again. That has happened to me a couple of times in the past few days, but I’m only here to talk … Continue re … | Continue reading
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Mercury has been in retrograde, which is one of those things I never used to pay attention to until I did. I still do not know much about astrology, and if I have questions about the stars, I tend to ask my sister who knows a little bit more than me. I do know that … Continue rea … | Continue reading
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I am not used to being wordless. Very few things in life leave me speechless, very few things keep me from touching pen to paper, but lately it seems an insurmountable chore to put anything out at all. The absolute last thing I want to do is write another blog about writer’s bloc … | Continue reading
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"Hey, Brig?""What up, brain?""You haven't blogged in a week.""Well, crap." In all honesty, I haven’t had much to say. The week went by in a flurry of chaos because work has been pure bedlam, with dozens of cars coming back daily after spring break. Yesterday was a little crazy be … | Continue reading
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April has arrived! And with it, comes National Poetry Month. In the past I have shared my poems, I have written about poetry, I have shared the poems of others, and I have talked about some of my favorite poets. I haven’t much to give today, because I haven’t had much time to wri … | Continue reading
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Lately I’m writing a lot more soapboxin’ posts that I intend, but that’s just the state of affairs in our world right now that is causing such things. Today I am up on my box because I have seen many references over the past week or so to what is being called :modern feminism,” a … | Continue reading
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I used to hear a lot of debate about whether or not people change. Some people say that you never change, but I have only found that those are the people that don’t. They only believe that because they themselves froze at about 20 years old and never learned anything new. The peo … | Continue reading
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Flipping finally! Yes, I look out the window, and I see snow. I don’t love it. However, what I do like is I know that under that thin blanket of ice, there are crocus that started blooming in my yard last week. I was thoroughly delighted by these little friends. Look at them! Thi … | Continue reading
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Last night, Mark said that he noticed I no longer celebrate Lent. Initially, I had a snide response in my head about the deconstruction of Christianity in general, but I let that slide and simply said “no, I do not.” For those not in the know, Lent is the 40 days prior to Easter … | Continue reading
As I write, I am sitting in the parking lot of my therapist’s office. Mind you, I don’t think I have been here since before Covid, but nothing has changed. I am not even here for myself, simply driving Mark to his appointment, but it is bringing back memories of when I first star … | Continue reading
Today is International Women’s Day, and I wanted to write an inspiring post about being a woman and then I realized nothing is inspiring me about my womanhood lately.Ever since they overturned Roe v Wade, I have been angry. Nope, let’s take it back farther- I have been angry sin … | Continue reading
Recently, I have been spending a lot of time working on my tarot skills. I am not even close to knowing all the meanings with the cards, but I do have a good rudimentary understanding of spreads and suits. I have found that doing my tarot each day has helped me to focus on person … | Continue reading
Hello, and welcome to March. March is Mental Health Awareness month, which is something that I have written about many times before. I do not shy away from speaking about my own mental health issues, ranging from major depressive disorder to obsessive compulsive disorder to anxie … | Continue reading
After I finished my last post, I got the following notification, which put my writing history into a sharp perspective. 500 posts? Honestly, I had no idea I was outputting that many words. I believe I have been keeping this particular blog for 6 years or so, and to think that I h … | Continue reading
I have had an extremely stressful two weeks. As previously written, I was working extra hours while my boss was out of town, but on top of that there was also a great deal of personal business with family and friends that needed my attention as well. Today is the first day where … | Continue reading
My mother-in-law texted me this morning regarding things of the spiritual realm, and it got me to thinking about the path I have been on over the past 2 years. Ever since Salem, things have changed in my mind and life, and in my way of handling situations. I have taken a greater … | Continue reading
How does it always seem to work that when you have a extremely busy day, one that should put you to bed early, you end up staying awake for hours past the time you should have? Or is this just me? Yesterday, I worked a 10-hour shift. That’s a long time for me, who is … Continue r … | Continue reading
I’m anxious. I came down with something of the infection sort last week, which landed me in the hospital for a few days. This time, it was not really a matter of gastroparesis so much as it was me getting “regular sick” and my diabetic body throwing everything into overdrive. I f … | Continue reading
My mother once said that when everything is on fire, you should take a second to appreciate the things that you have that are going well. Today is Valentine’s Day, so I’m going to give that a shot, because truly everything is aflame. Alas, I remain lucky. My mother may have passe … | Continue reading
My Tiktok algorithm has a tendency to take me down various rabbit holes. When I watch a video, I rarely take the information at face value, and almost always check sources. I was feeling a little unprepared, however, when many videos came across my feed discussing preparations fo … | Continue reading
I had an alarm set for 12:01am, but I slept through it, naturally. The reason I set an alarm for that time was because that was the moment that Ghost City Press opened submissions for their summer microchap series. As a constant reader may know, I have a little chapbook that I ha … | Continue reading
I should not be blogging right now. It is not blog day. Alas, I hopped on the Tiktok this morning and was sorely disappointed to discover that everyone on the planet is a goddamn idiot. So hang on a second, let me get up on this soapbox… Listen, it is bad enough that World War … … | Continue reading
Upon starting this blog, the time reads 3:39 a.m. I am not pleased with this. I would like very much to not be writing a blog right now, but instead be sleeping peacefully in a comfy bed, dreaming of taking a vacation. That’s what most of my dreams are: vacation dreams. Either I … | Continue reading
Long ago, I wrote about my first experience at a poetry reading. I have also written many times about the open mic that I attend every other Wednesday, health permitting. I have discussed in length the levels of anxiety that these events bring me, and I’m proud to report that las … | Continue reading
I have already written about an ontological shock. This is some more of that, and I can guarantee there will be even more down the line, so here’s the deal: I started out this blog writing about memories regarding science and school and learning about the planet. I ended the entr … | Continue reading
I wrote this for my Patreon, but I decided to post it here as well because it reaches a bigger audience. So… Hello! My name is Brigid, and I am a white, American, middle-aged woman with Irish heritage! Naturally, I am aware of my privilege and vantage point, and as such likely ha … | Continue reading
8:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning and I have my coffee and no stomach ache, which is a strange development considering the past week. I spent 3 days admitted to Sister’s Hospital, lost a whole weekend of work, and what feels like a week of my life, all to the business of diabetes. … | Continue reading
This first paragraph is from some freeform writing I did a while ago just to get myself in the groove: We used to explore abandoned places with little flashlights before we had cell phones to light our way, hopping fences and sneaking through windows, looking for buildings no one … | Continue reading
As the longtime reader knows, my New Year’s resolution is, as always, to not eat a phone book. I’ve been able to keep this resolution for over a decade now, and it has just gotten easier each year- I mean where would I even find a phone book these days? Since this is such a … Con … | Continue reading
Once upon a time, I went camping for my birthday. It was not a great day, because I planned for my parents and sister and some friends to come and join us at the cabin for a party, but I got sick and ended up spending the day puking in the back room. They all … Continue reading C … | Continue reading
I don’t talk about my financial situation, because I was raised to believe that was not something you shared with other folks. One can surmise however, from my career as a part-time car renter and my husband’s warehouse work, that we do not make a very healthy salary. We are payc … | Continue reading
Sometimes I sit around and I think of topics for my blog, and I write them in my little Notes app, then when I come back to them later they don’t make a lot of sense. For instance, once upon a time I wrote the words “Ghostbusters and Barbie.” Nothing else, just the name of … Cont … | Continue reading