March has been one hell of a month. With schools and businesses shut down across the country without warning, everyday necessities like toilet paper and bread becoming unavailable overnight, and the world-wide COVID 19 pandemic on everyone’s mind, life has gotten very...
If you are a human of a certain age, you probably heard the phrase, “Don’t cry, or I’ll give you something to cry about” at some point in your childhood. Maybe you dropped your ice-cream cone on the ground, or your sibling got something that you wanted, and you burst...
Last month many schools celebrated No Name-Calling Week, an event created in 2004 to fight bullying and name-calling in kids from pre-school to high school. As I thought about anti-bullying, and not calling names, I started thinking about how we as adults have a...
Winter in Chicago can be dreary as hell. Not only are the days at their shortest right now, but so many days are cloudy, bleak and overcast. I’m bumming myself out just writing about it. In fact, the only time that the sun seems to shine brightly is when the...
The other day I was watching tv, my BFF [Best Furry Feline] by my side. Her name is Muffin, and one of my favorite things about her is that she lives her life without any guilt. None. She doesn’t feel guilty for sitting on the sofa with me watching television. She...
Warning: This post contains profanities. The other day I was scrolling through Facebook and I noticed the targeted ad of the day. It was for a journal called, “Fuck this Shit Show: A Gratitude Journal for Tired-Ass Women.” I laughed at first when I saw it, but the...
Are you watching the impeachment hearings? When are you going to meet a nice boy/girl and settle down? How much did that new car cost you? Family holidays are a time of love, celebration, and spending time together. In a perfect world, there is nothing but holiday...
Sometimes it seems as if the Christmas holiday season kicks off the moment the last Halloween trick-or-treater has selected their fun-size piece of candy and headed back down the sidewalk. The porch lights around the block go off for the night, and the next day the...
When you do not feel good, you don’t always know what you need to feel better. Sure, with some stuff like the common cold or a headache, you’ve got some go-to solutions like soup and hot showers, but other times you just know that you do not want to feel bad anymore....
