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The ride is so, SO worth the hard emotions and even in the final most devastating moments, the characters are fucking hilarious. Like, shockingly, bawdily funny. These are the friends who can't be allowed to sit next to each other at serious events because they'll giggle and misbehave and it's a pleasure to watch them sit together through the MOST serious thing that could happen and giggle and misbehave.

The instinct to grip hard and never let go to keep them (me) feeling safe is contrary to how growth works. My job is to let go just as soon as I can so they can fly on their own. If I keep holding them to me, we'll both stay stuck in the nest, or plummet to the ground in a tangle of broken wings.

LOOKING FOR BETA READERS! HELLO, MY NAME IS ASH (First of the Red Door Series), is a middle grade fantasy about a nonbinary 4th grader...

My stupid morning started at midnight.

Radical kindness + take care of your own heart + keep perspective on where we are in history.

I think it's an exaggeration to say time heals all wounds. Some can't and you just learn to build your new self around them.

We had an option and we chose this. Bruised all over inside, soggy around the edges. I am grieving.

In marriage counseling, we've been doing Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy - which is basically identifying your triggers- where you...

It started about a week ago, this sense of doom. The kids were getting ready to go back to school, and instead of tasting my impending...

I'm trying to make friends in our new home (3.5 years new) and it's haarrrrdddd. I'm only mildly social and pretty busy with kids, pets,...

Every time I go to a Pride event, I leave feeling amazing. The radical love and acceptance is so vivid, I can taste it in the air. It's a...

I don't know how to function when my kid is struggling. I'm sure it's condependent and there's a better way, but when my kids are in...

I haven't been writing because I don't know how to begin to share what I've been going through. Also, I'm hesitant because I'm not sure...

That's what the therapist for my ten year-old told me tonight, when I was hemming and hawing over whether it was too much for me to ask...

Alright, so let me start by saying that this movie is strange and arty and will be taught in film school going forward. I am certain it's...

I woke up with a headache and the feeling that leaving my bed today would be ambitious. It could be from the pressure changes; it’s...

Mean Girls: So, this is the movie version of the Broadway musical (2018) based on the 2004 movie, based on a parenting book. It's about...

TW: rape and murder I finally got the house back to myself yesterday after the six month holiday school break. (That's not an...

There's an older man dropping facial gymnastics about whatever he's reading in a real live actual print newspaper in front of him. I...

Best thing I've watched lately: The newest (5th) season of Fargo, "based on a true story," started back up a few weeks ago, each season...