I Don't Do Perky

I just finished watching the popular Netflix series "Maid," which follows the path of a young woman and her daughter escaping an...

"Know your worth." We've all heard that phrase, but do any of us stop to calculate our real worth? I hadn't, but I've been reflecting on...

It's been nearly four years since my younger son died of brain cancer. Since then, his room has remained exactly as it was: the bed made,...

I have a love/hate relationship with exercise. I love the results, hate the effort. I'm by no means a lazy person, but I've never been...

There's a meme making the rounds that goes like this: I truly believe that every single person has to go through something that...

I never seem to learn my lesson. Or maybe I'm just too trusting. I always want to take people at face value and think they're as honest...

I'm not sure why but grief has come to sit with me this week. You never know when it's going to visit. You can be plugging away at life...

Winter and I have always gotten along at an arm's distance. I tolerated it when I had to. I always tried to make the best of it, you...

People have told me I'm the strongest person they know. I find that hard to believe as folks on this planet have gone through larger life...

Previously I wrote about online dating and all the nonsense involved with that. Here's a story from one of my experiences. I matched with...

Last week marked my son's 14th birthday, although he's no longer with me. I have spent more than three years learning how to live without...

I have a 17-year-old son. Yes, he knows it all. Yes, he thinks I'm fossilizing before his very eyes. And yes, he has to be hounded daily...

There are a lot of Internet platitudes about choosing joy and happiness. "You make your own happiness," "find the good in everything,"...

Allow me to digress and tell you a story from a vacation I took in 2020. Yeah, yeah, I know....a vacation in 2020 doesn't seem like a...

This isn't the Christmas I had ever planned. I woke up this morning without my family. The year 2020 ravaged everyone's lives and I've...

I have used several online dating apps and here's what I've learned: Men don't know how to take selfies. They are always shot from the...

There is a pall that falls over the holidays for me now. I have very little family left, and none that live close to me. There is the...