It’s been over a week since my last blog post. I’m doing my damndest to be timelier with these. Then again, I am ALWAYS on time for work and appointments. Can you really expect it here, too? So with me being in the throes of stupid em effing depression and a week into a probably […]

“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There, now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less a head cold—with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.” (Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees) Oh, friends, I am so sick of this topic. SO SICK […]

I’m into day four of my vacation and the girls are off school today. What we are supposed to be doing is decorating for Christmas. What we ARE doing is all sitting around in our PJ’s, watching Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. At any moment, I’m certain we will jump into action and start carting boxes […]

I’ve been up since 4:30am this morning, not basting a turkey or making pies, but waiting for the much anticipated call from work telling me that my prayers to the patron saint of floor census had been answered: I was granted off for today. (Woohoo, vacation starts now!) Since then, since the girls are with […]

Lately my Trusted Companion and I have been ticking through a list of questions we found developed by psychologist Arthur Aron, et al, from a study created to explore whether or not intimacy can be accelerated. Now, the Trusted Companion and I have known one another for five years, already, so some of these questions […]

And I’m sure you’re thinking, “What?!  YOU, Jen??  An asshole?  I don’t believe it!!!” Alas, it’s true.  And because I firmly believe that we are ALL assholes at one time or another, I thought I’d set aside my shame and throw it all out there into the light. First, a brief background:  I’ve been divorced […]

So here I sit, in my new condo, drinking Belvedere (that’s vodka!) on the rocks with bleu cheese olives. IN MY NEW CONDO. Can you believe that?! I bought a HOME for me and my girls ALL BY MYSELF. Okay, this might not be stunning news to you, but this is a BIG. FREAKING. DEAL. […]

Okay, okay.  I KNOW.  I’ve been terrible about updating this blog after the last one. The good news:  The mortgage went through!  We got the house!!! The bad news:  Moving.  Moving.  And more moving. When I was young, “autograph books” were a thing.  A pretty big thing.  And they didn’t have to be autographs from […]

Think about that.  Packing is NEVER a good word.  Large wound?  Fill it with packing.  Scary dude?  Bet he’s packing.  Getting older?  Pounds come packing.  Just the word is enough to make one shudder.  Actually PACKING is even worse. The divorce was final in 2009.  This will be my third move in six years.  MY […]

It’s that time of year again, folks!  If you live in NE OH, that means Friday night football. Or, in my case, Friday night band shows sandwiched between some pig skin. Let me start off by saying that Friday night lights would be infinitely more enjoyable if preceded by Friday night flights. Of beer. Or wine. […]