by Mir | Aug 28, 2012 | Oh look! Something furry!!
It’s Tuesday, and that means I’m over at Feel More Better. Today I’ve written a little love letter to Licorice, because that’s what my life has come to. Love letters to my dog. (Normally I just sing to her, you understand. You are my pupshine,...
by Mir | Aug 27, 2012 | What do I do all day?
I spent half the weekend curled up in a little ball under my desk. Oh, haha! Not really! God, there’s crumbs and dog toys and stuff under there. I do my best fetal position checking-out-of-life withdrawal either in bed or on the Man Couch. (Man Couch has...
by Mir | Aug 23, 2012 | Health is overrated, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
It’s been just over a month since I finally dared to say it out loud, that we believed Chickadee was getting better, that our long nightmare of a year might—finally!—be headed somewhere more hopeful. Meds were changed, improvements took hold, and I...
by Mir | Aug 21, 2012 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!
It’s Tuesday, so that means I’m over at Feel More Better, but today I couldn’t muster up something funny. In the wake of yesterday’s comments by Rep. Akin and the resulting discussions of what rape is and isn’t and what it can and...
by Mir | Aug 20, 2012 | Ottomatic For the People, What do I do all day?
This weekend Licorice and I had our birthdays. That’s how I knew she was meant to be my dog, you know—the rescue had assigned her a birthdate, I guess, and it’s the day after mine. She is now maybe-six (really, they’re just guessing on her age)...
