Covid has become my Series Finale

So my life has become like those tv series that are ending where they bring back the ‘Big Bad Villain’ and long past story lines to hopefully provide closure. I don’t know how my ‘final’ season is going to end, will it finally get that happy ending I’ve been long denied or will a LOST like theme repeat itself here?

My 9 year old “came out” and didn’t realize it

I grew up in an Irish Catholic home and didn’t have ANY exposure to the LGBTQ community for years yet somehow always felt ‘different’ than the world around me. I was so sheltered I didn’t even understand sex, romantic feelings, hell I was even raised to believe that tampons were forbidden because they took away…

Heartbreaking when women attack one another

I had been stalking AMC’s site so I could buy tickets ASAP and I was lucky enough to be the first one to purchase tickets for my 2 daughters and I which didn’t go on sale until Tuesday of this week for the Friday regular showings. Unfortunately a lady decided to buy tickets for her…

Kids’ 2 Half Days of School? Happiness….

Today Tuesday, 30 May is the last full day of school for my girls. Tomorrow is their Awards Day and Thursday is classroom parties; both days they only attend for a few hours. Now I know that may seem like a hassle to have to get up early, go through all the normal school day…

How Christians Can Force You into Atheism

I was raised Catholic and it never occurred to me that I should be anything else especially since my family can trace it’s lineage back hundreds of years. In the 1000+ years of documented family drama every generation has been a part of the Catholic Church to the point they were involved in many groups…

Defecting to the Sahm’s Group

I never thought of myself as being able to do the “Stay at Home Mom” thing. My own mother was a SAHM for quite a bit of my life before she got her nursing degree. She was perfect at it, she was like June Cleaver or Donna Reed. The neighborhood kids were constantly hanging out…

I Hate My Children and Husband (and That’s Totally Okay)

As I sit here writing, there is rain falling outside in the dark and it sounds beautiful. The window is open next to me, I have on an old Texas Wesleyan University hoodie to keep warm against the cold air that occasionally wafts in. The breathtaking silence that envelopes me amidst the rain drops is…