by Mir | Mar 4, 2015 | Growing
Sometimes I look back on things I’ve written before and just… cringe. It doesn’t happen too often, but still. Hindsight, growth, etc. Because I am still trying to grow as a person and life still sometimes sucks, I wrote you a piece about taking care...
by Mir | Feb 28, 2015 | Health is overrated, It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
I started off the week thinking, “Huh. It’s almost March. THE SUCK IS NEARLY OVER.” But I guess I forgot I still had a whole week to get through and that I am me. This past week included: Taxes, a giant box of ordered-on-the-cheap Christmas candy...
by Mir | Feb 24, 2015 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Oh look! Something furry!!
It snowed this morning, which was Terribly Exciting. School was not canceled, however—SAD FACE—which was Terribly Disappointing. My poor, poor children, reared in snowy New England for the first half of their lives, complained that they would surely DIE on...
by Mir | Feb 17, 2015 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!
Sure, you people in the northeast have been trapped under a dozen feet of snow for a whole month, but here in Georgia we had a teeny bit of freezing rain last night and now the world is ending. School is canceled! Trees are falling over! The power flickered on and off...
by Mir | Feb 16, 2015 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Ottomatic For the People
The other day a dear friend said something along the lines of “Maybe I’m not a horrible person and maybe the world isn’t awful. Maybe it’s just February.” (I am paraphrasing a little, I think.) This struck a chord with me, because...
