I had leg cramps today. So I started hunting my bottle of magnesium. Couldn’t find it anywhere, so finally thought about my overnight bag tucked away in the back of the closet. Maybe there… My overnight bag was sitting on a shelf at the back of the closet. Beside it was a red bucket. Curling […]

Random thoughts about grief and positivity. I’ve written about toxic positivity before: how the American culture doesn’t embrace “feeling your feels.” We urge the “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” model. Keep on the sunny side. Look on the bright side. Or as my mother used to say when I’d complain about something, “at least […]

Attended a meeting of the “onlies” tonight. We have two newer members who lost their son (and only child) to hazing. It was his first year at college. I see the pain and panic in their faces. Their loss is very fresh. Talking with them helped me see my improvement over the last 18 months. […]

Food… I started pondering food after having a discussion with my sisters sitting on a picnic bench at Navigator restaurant. We met to discuss good things. Daddy has decided to split off ten acre plots for each of us on the ranch, so we got together to discuss what it might mean and what we […]