white noise

Sounds like a great name for a rock band, doesn’t it? I deleted the last email, the one sitting in my inbox this morning. I didn’t even bother to read it. She’s always needed to have the last word; it’s her nature. I hope she feels better now, because I certainly do. I get it. […]

When I first moved to Lincoln, California in 1998, for a while, I played the part of Rescuer. Eventually, that lead to more and more moments of being both Victim and Persecutor. Mostly though, I was merely codependent or counterdependent, depending on the day or my mood. No matter how dysfunctional my friendship with her […]

So, everyone knows the more time we spend in the sun, the lighter our hair becomes, right? For me, this usually means more pronounced red highlights. I think I liked this color — once — when I was 17. Assertion on the box of L’Oréal #6A “Light Ash Brown”: This shade has a cooler tone […]

Well, it has been an interesting couple of weeks. Today, for those of you inclined to do so, I’m asking that you send a bit of love and strength via prayers to Yana’s sister (and the family in general). She’s about to lose her husband to kidney and liver failure. Also, a bit of love […]

It’s a good day and a needed one after this week. On Monday I got a full dose of Myer’s Cocktail and it floored me. Or, perhaps the fun and sun at Colonial Williamsburg, the stress of almost losing my step-mother, and the cocktail made for a bomb of a week. Phew! It’s a little […]