Category: Life
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Photo Credit: acase1968 Flickr via Compfight cc Fuck off 2017. I hope you do better, 2018.
I’m back in the office after a holiday weekend spent in the hospital with my mother. That seems par for the course for the way 2017 has gone. It’s pretty much been a garbage fire on the world stage as well as personally. Let’s have a look at it: We have gained: One president who…
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Photo Credit: Philipp Zieger – www.philippzieger-photographie.de Flickr via Compfight cc Like to the lark at break of day arising
I am feeling a touch more optimistic this morning. Maybe it’s that my mom – after two weeks of hell for both of us – has had a stretch of three good days, including Christmas. Maybe it’s that I woke up sandwiched between two dapper, cuddly gentlemen and a beautiful lady (my cats, in their…
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Photo Credit: jaci XIII Flickr via Compfight cc A Month of Terrible Weekends
On Labor Day, a close friend of mine died of pulmonary embolism. They were often the first person I interacted with every morning, a person I shared a lot of the same mental health issues with and that I could talk with. I’m managing, but it always seems to hit me in the mornings when I…
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The Uneasy Balance between Staying Informed and Staying Sane
The news cycle these days is enough to give you whiplash. It’s like being under siege, like one of those horrible missions on any given RTS game where you have to survive for a period of time while the game throws waves upon waves of enemies in your direction. Winning isn’t an option, survival is…
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I’ve created a Patreon
Patreon may be one of the best things to have come out for creators in the recent crowd-sourced age of the internet. It has enabled so many content creators to live independently, making the things they love and serving those things directly to the people who want to buy them. It’s a game changer. But…
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Amazon Prime Day 2017
While, as a writer, I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Amazon, it is as ubiquitous and impossible to avoid as Wal-Mart, especially for someone like me, who lives in a rural location with little other ways to access certain products. And as a person with limited income, well, the deals are occasionally…
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What the ACA has meant to me
Before the ACA took effect, I paid $300 per month in premiums for an insurance plan with a $5000.00 deductible and no co-insurance until the deductible was met. I do not get insurance through my day job (with only two full time employees, it would cost my employer and myself and my coworker far more to…
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Productivity for the Hopelessly Unproductive
I am hopelessly unorganized. Not just the typical level of lax organization either. I am scatterbrained and easily distracted, so I have trouble remembering things I need to remember to do. Or pick up at the store. Or. Well, anything I have to remember, really. There isn’t a productivity system out there that I haven’t…
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Gaming For Anxiety Relief
I’m a big fan of Jenny Lawson a/k/a The Bloggess (if you deal with mental health issues or care for someone who does, you should REALLY read [amazon_textlink asin=’1250077028′ text=’Furiously Happy’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’meadhbh-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’2b94be5d-25eb-11e7-a930-6bd49afac93e’] ) and as a result, I tend to spend a lot of time hanging out in the #BloggessPals hashtag on Twitter just…
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Photo Credit: Tom Simpson Flickr via Compfight cc Caught Between Fire and Stone
Depression paralyzes. Anger motivates. When you get them together? It can feel like you’re a bee flailing at a pane of clear glass, endlessly bouncing off to no effect. I have been so very angry. It started last November when this country elected a President and filled Congress with people who see me as second…