My So Called Life
All the random ass shit that happens. Read at your own risk.
Day-to-day dispatches from a life that is technically ordinary and somehow never boring. Work problems, relationship observations, aging indignities, boundary violations, and the occasional moment of genuine clarity that makes all the rest of it worth it. The catch-all category for everything that doesn't fit neatly anywhere else — which, honestly, describes most of real life.Dirty Big Secrets – Hiding a Legacy of Mental Illness
My aunt was diagnosed with something, put in a home, and never spoken of again. My family treats mental illness like a dirty secret.
Unconscious Bias the Job Killer
My saga of work life with a horrible boss continues under the toxic cloud of unconscious bias.
10 Years a Divorcee – In the End
It's been 10 years since I got out of the toxic marriage. Time to reflect, assess if I am better off in the end than I was when this all started.
Ode To a Cat – Rebreaking My Heart
Ode to my cat. Grief is a heartless bitch, and she's come a knocking on my door again.
New Year, Same Old Bullshit – Tales of a Bad Manager
My boss is a textbook bad manager — demotivating, micromanaging, biased — and it feels uncomfortably familiar. On toxic masculinity at work and recognizing the pattern when you've lived it before.
