the shadow is back

It felt like things had been slowly getting back to what I can only say feels like a bit of normalcy. But another bad nightmare, plus some other things happening and we're back in the land of the darkness again. Hmmm where to begin. About a month ago, I got offered a new job. It's …

turn back the clock

I'm feeling overwhelmed. I don't want to fight with anyone. I just want things to be calm and quiet. I want to hide from everything and everyone. I don't want things to be this way. I got a call from outpatient mental health services yesterday. The referral my psychiatrist put in for me back in …

week 3

Well, I've just finished week 3 of the new normal. I'm still working about half of my time at home and half at work because I'm still on the essential list, so I really have yet to fully settle in to the remote working life. Work is actually quite busy. I never thought I would …

the wall has been hit

I felt like I'd been doing fairly well the last two weeks settling into working from home, helping the youngest try to keep up with some schoolwork and being a mother all at the same time. It's a lot but I thought I was doing okay with it all. Today though, I have this deep …

busy in uncertain times

Well, we've just finished our second week of the new normal. Thankfully, we still have only one confirmed case in our city but I expect that to change in the coming weeks as all the vacationers have now come back from the March break trip they just 'had to have'. I know not all of them …

living life in uncertain times

Does anyone else suffer a mild heart attack every time their phone rings in the nighttime. I don't sleep well on a good day so when my phone rings at 11:41 pm it sort of sends me into a heart-racing, state of panic. And it wasn't only my house phone. I also received a call …