pink carnations

All my siblings have mental health hurdles, but one of them has a worser case than the rest of us. This led to me being suddenly disinvited from an anticipated luxurious staycation around the same time as the first dead birthday of a friend. I’m kind of proud of that sentence, although it’s for me, […]

end times

I walk my usual circles around the gym. One of my students throws baskets, missing most of them, grabbing the ball, going again against no one. Another student wanted to talk to me about how fast his heart had beat that day, and how he was scared of having a heart attack. I did not […]

Hope that they

“Okay, so you’re talking out, time to go to a buddy room,” I said, even as I said it thinking, wait, what? I work with the most high-maintenance kids. The kids kicked out of regular school, but not messed up enough to be hospitalized. And mostly I like it a lot, except when all of […]

adopting

What does anxiety go with? Animal print? Obviously it goes with your cat dying, your parent being diagnosed with a terrible illness, and getting a new boss. …but it also goes with a whole week off work! A great birthday party! A new baby! My dad had a multiples-of-five birthday, and two of my siblings […]