October 2018 – Can I Be Amazing After 50?

Killer, “Are You Still Single?” Comebacks!

Yay, the holidays are coming! Can hardly wait to sit around that family table, when all attention spotlights on you and that infamous question comes, “Are you still single?” Really? Amongst the sea of coupled up cousins and siblings, there you sit…ALONE! Ugh no more. I have compiled a list of comebacks that will moveContinue reading “Killer, “Are You Still Single?” Comebacks!”

Watching Life Go By As a Depressed Mother

My daughter wanted me by her side every moment of her free time. We were thr best of friends…so I thought. She was proud of all the things I’ve went through in life because I did it being a depressed person…that was then. We had each others backs and were each others biggest cheerleaders…when didContinue reading “Watching Life Go By As a Depressed Mother”

Good Night Depression

Another day with this dark weight on my very existence. I barely got out of bed at 3 pm and now as the clock inches to nightfall, my bed calls me. If promises me comfort in an otherwise dark world that has given up on me. Sleep offers an escape from pain from loneliness. SoContinue reading “Good Night Depression”

What Depression Has Taken From Me

Depression, thank you very much for invading my life and just taking it over. You are like a mobster that breaks in a house and just starts ripping everything you find. You flip over couches, spray paint over any beautiful paintings you see, break all the beautiful china wear you find. Depression you have robbedContinue reading “What Depression Has Taken From Me”

I Am A Mother With Depression

If there would be a law, should it be parenting with depression is prohibited? A child looks at their parents for modeling, for motivation. They have prohibited gay people from adopting, yet wouldn’t two loving happy people parent better than a mother who often could not get out of bed, who couldn’t find the energyContinue reading “I Am A Mother With Depression”

When He Moves On And You Are Still Alone

Which one is it? Why don’t I want to date? I say it is because I am taking time I say there is nobody out there I say I don’t care that he has moved on but the knot in my stomach knows so I’m at the point where I should be dating I’mContinue reading “When He Moves On And You Are Still Alone”