I live in the front bedroom of my son’s house. Everything I own, and most people would say I have nothing, surrounds me. Another time I lived in the front bedroom of my recently dead father’s and more recently dead mother’s house. Everything I owned, and then most people would say I owned some things,…
Author: shardswords
Is Hannah Gadsby’s Rage Really The Problem?
Jeff Garlin decided Hannah Gadsby should voluntarily cut off her own income before she was allowed to criticize Ted Sarandos and Netflix but says men who do horrible things don’t deserve to lose their money. Mike Birbiglia and Hasan Minhaj show us perfect examples of what girls hear from their dads who don’t understand that their daughters hear them long before they go out into the ruthless world of men.
Your Feet Upon The Ground
It’s November 5th. All of the holidays will approach much faster than some of us are ready for. *Raises hand, nods* “May your past be the sound of your feet upon the ground” is a line from the song Carry On by Fun. The stanza in context is: “If you’re lost and alone, or you’re…
A Slight Change of Plans Podcast | Dr. Maya Shankar Interviews Annie Duke
Dr. Maya Shankar interviews Annie Duke (author of How To Decide). A great conversation about how we value certain kinds of decisions and how some of the ones we’ve seen as failures might be better seen in a different light.
Plans Awry | Count On It
If you’ve been around a while you’ve noticed plans rarely go as…planned. In work, in life, in relationships, writing, making art, raising children – things go awry.
Moving Over For Raggedy Ann & Andy
When I was a child, I would make more room for those two dolls in my childhood single bed than I’d leave for myself. I’d try to stay stone still so not to disturb them or lay on them or take up their room. That might sound sweet…but it was not.
Slow Growing & Still Going Through
It’s been years of slow growing. I’m still in it, still going through. Here’s to us late bloomers.
Cannabis. Age. Women. Life.
I started using cannabis in my late 50s. It has changed some things and I’m sharing those things here.
The Mommy Pages
Women shepherding children in this world deserve to have 21st century community instead of the generations of mommy critics that keep storming in.
It’s Weird Figuring Out What You Want To Be When You’re 60
My parents were mostly good about keeping us alive and involved in things and going on a few of the obligatory family vacations white lower middle class families go on – camping, visits to a friend’s lake house, road trips to visit family they barely wanted to be around. But in my family there was zero introduction to the world as someone who would live an independent life, have dreams, need to plan a life or grow in maturity.