Midlife Musings
Fortysomething. If my life were a TV show, that would be the title, and these are the episodes. Or maybe I am just having an episode.
Everything they don't put in the brochure for your 40s. Work situations that make your blood boil, body changes nobody prepared you for, pop culture opinions held with unreasonable conviction, and the general absurdity of being a grown woman who still hasn't figured out what she wants to be when she grows up. Honest, unfiltered, and occasionally petty in ways that are entirely justified.NYE Resolutions – Make It or Break It
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Doing jack shit this NYE
Laid off, broke, depressed, and hiding it from my mother. NYE plans: me, my kids, and my cats. Also the part where I finally started writing again.
Tribe Called Quest – This Song is My Jam
RIP Phife Dawg. Electric Relaxation was on my Discman on the NYC subway. A Tribe Called Quest will always be on the soundtrack of my life.
Ebola: When is it Okay to be Scared?
Ebola reached Dallas and I started avoiding crowds. A short, fatalistic dispatch on human self-interest and why I skipped the State Fair.
Letting Go of Self-Sabotage
An experience in fourth grade that was both good and bad. Years later I am still learning to let go of self-sabotage.
