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We had a gorgeous storm over Appleby last night! Loads of thunder lightening and rain! I loved it! Thankfully my little cat isn’t bothered by it. She was snoring on the livingroom windowsill and it didn’t appear to bother my 3 fish either, which is good!
אני קושית יפה/I’m a Cute Black Girl Pg 93
Never have I ever felt as uncomfortable, in shul, as I did last Friday… and you would think that being a black woman and having grown up around Jews and Whites and having gone to an Orthodox Shul a million times, throughout my life, that a Progressive Shul would be the last place I would e…
My MIL is a Pastor
I’m currently feeling shattered after separating from my husband, especially because his mother said hurtful things to me. It’s particularly painful coming from someone I never expected to mistreat me, given that she’s a pastor and I assumed she had a rational mindset. Unfortunately, she’s r…
Mother’s Day
Today was kind of like any other day, I got up and started cleaning my house and working on laundry. I spent my whole with my two daughters as well. My husband had to work a double today so I didn’t get to see him until later in the day. When he got home today he had two bags filled with my …
Happy Mother’s Day
It’s 8:30pm on Mother’s Day and I’m on the 6th beer in the first 6pack I’ve finished in one evening alone, to myself. Ive been ruminating all day. Constantly obsessing over my children’s father, wondering why he stopped watching my fb stories, constantly checking to see if he did, to see if …
Lack Of Electricity And Productivity
Mom died six years ago. In saying that, Mother’s Day tends to have little, to no, value for me now. Today would mark the fifth Mother’s Day that I’ve had to endure without her. That might sound a bit dramatic and I don’t mean it to sound that way. Even when she was alive, it wasn’t as th…
What’s up, OD
This site is running better than what it was the last time I checked it out, probably like 3 years ago. I’m glad to see the place is much faster. It still lacks in features, like maybe I’m missing something, but don’t think it’s easy to put most of my individual posts on private as a batch b…
Mother’s day+Catsit
I celebrated Mother’s Day early with my mom due to schedule constraints. Also, mom did not want to go to a crowded place and we assumed that most places would be crowded since it was Mother’s Day. I visited a place where a friend of mine was catsitting – yeap you heard that right, catsitting…
the sun is setting over the hills & galley kitchens;
Another piece of epistolary prose to a friend from last year. Words seem to be the only thing I can take solace in lately. They hurt, but being hurt will always feel better than feeling nothing at all. It’s metronomic, in at least there’s a pulse. This has been slow denature, and over …
Sunday 5/12/24
7:32a.m. I had the granddaddy of all nightmares. It was about my nephew Rich.He came to my parents house one night drunk. Unknown to me they hired him to do repairs around the house. He made a mess everywhere. I kept yelling at him get the hell out! But he would not listen. Then there were t…