When I was a teenager, I raised chickens and such. Considering it’s the popular season for eating birds, I thought I’d share one of my favorite bar-be-que stories. One summer, I was sick, and took some of my favorite medications to help me sleep: single-malt whiskey. After I tanked myself, I slept better than normal.
This year, Jenny and I had a different set-up for Thanksgiving, and I loved it. Fewer people meant more opportunity to join intimate conversation. Get this – I talked religion, science, mindfulness, and personal responsibility with people I am still learning to trust. It was a safe conversation, and I found support from my newly
There is an art to building the family you want. It can be a Herculean task, or should I say an Sisyphian effort? The task is daunting, and it never ends. It takes meticulous curation of every person in your life. I have spent time wasting my “family” on undeserving people. I have poured love through
My new favorite dish has been making it’s rounds this week. A turkey, stuffed with an octopus, garnished with crab legs and bacon. Other than the fact my food allergies would kill me with such a dish, I think it sounds amazing. I want to do this so darn bad. Of course, I’m the only
Before we go into more detail, it’s important to clarify, as much as possible, the roles and relationships in my family. The core of this has to be my siblings. I’ve mentioned the Great Reproduction Wars in a previous post. Today you get to dive into the core portion of why I have more siblings
My family tree is a mess. I couldn’t explain it well enough to be understood unless I had a dedicated website JUST for that. Ancestry websites get confused and give up. It’s quite fun to try to get them to represent my whole family. [sarcasm] A lesson I learned early on is that adding more
There’s nothing like looking up the people from your past on offender databases, and finding that many of them are felons. I went through some databases, and found uncles, my father, my step-fathers (all but one of them), and many other “role models” from my past listed. Yay for public records. Good news, though: I’m
Sorry for the long hiatus. My family always comes first, and for the last 7 months, that has meant not posting. I can’t share details, because it isn’t my story to tell. Suffice to say that it has been a hard year, and that my posts are back. Please rejoin me as I return to
Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (also known as C-PTSD) is a little confusing. The term isn’t accepted by the American Psychiatric Association as a mental disorder, but is used to describe PTSD that is the result of extended exposure to trauma. Here’s the deal: The term PTSD describes the symptoms that a person experiences after they’ve
When kids act out and misbehave, we’re quick to assume that they’re spoiled, lack discipline, or are just having one of those days. For the most part, it really is usually one of those things—not that parent’s want to admit that their child is anything less than perfect. Unfortunately though, some poor behavior could actually
