Tag: mental health
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Out of Order
Alex and I use and abuse and repair our appliances until the repair people run screaming from our home and tell us to lose their number. Our old stove was here in 2019 when we moved in. We’d been coaxing her along for a few years now, replacing igniters and heating elements. The repair guy…
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MOOCH
This week is the week when I should have been welcoming nervous, adult education students back into my classroom for my 10th year of teaching ESL. I should be taking their first day of school pictures and doing get to know you activities. I should be. But I’m not. Instead, I am jobless and directionless,…
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The 2002 Project: Lost and Found
A treatise on the art of getting lost and being found
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Girl, Interrupted
During this quarantine, I’ve been doing this app called 1 Second Everyday, where you basically create a video montage over a period of time made up of, you guessed it, a video clip of 1 second from each day. The Kid, who is a perpetual optimist and doesn’t want to think about or remember anything…
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The Ugly Tree
Well, today sucked. There’s just no way around it. The Baby’s seizure activity has increased at an alarming rate, even from Wednesday. He had three seizures during the Zoom session with his speech pathologist. We’d be singing a song and he would just lose control of his upper body and then look up at me…
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We are but kites
On a whim, I picked up a plastic kite for The Kid on my shopping trip to Kroger last Friday. It was my first in person trip to any store in several weeks and The Kid and I had begun to feel the quarantine crunch. If you had asked me in January whether both The…
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Tuesdays with Lori
Lori is my oldest Dallas friend. I met her all the way back in 2008 when our dogs became best buddies at our apartment complex. She was single-momming it at the time and we quickly became part of a community in our complex that is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced, even to this day. When…