I’ve hesitated writing about this topic for a while, but it just keeps knocking on my heart and mind. It won’t go away so I’m going to have to address it. Let’s get right to it. I have bipolar disorder, with a severe anxiety component. (I’ve never actually asked if I have a second diagnosis…
Well, I’ve made it another year around the sun, and one year closer to my age 42 deadline. I am 37 years old. (How did that happen?!) So I’ve got five years left. That sounds like so much time, but I know I can’t expect to cram in all the Things in the last two…
Fig turned two on Thursday! I keep saying this, but I can’t believe it. We celebrated her birthday on Saturday afternoon with our family. My thoughts about all of this aren’t organized but I’m sharing them anyway. I’m sitting here typing this two hours after the party ended. My heart is full to bursting. So…
Ok, I know I missed a week, but I was on a really good roll there for a while so I’m going to try to keep going. As long as I end up with 22 posts in six months, I’ll feel like the Blog Regularly Thing is a success. It was a rough week. Fig…
In pursuit of my Thing to blog every week for six months, I am writing a post today. (Technically two days late, but whatevs) I have to admit my heart isn’t in it. I’m still feeling very discouraged by the state of the world. And there have been some changes in my personal world lately…
I was thinking about my post for this week, and I really wasn’t sure what to say. With everything going on in our country, I feel ridiculous for prattling about some personal improvement project yet again. So I’m going to try to articulate some other thoughts. I struggle with speaking up about political or religious things…
One of my New Year’s resolutions was to do one fun family/kid thing every month. January’s nearly over so this Saturday, we headed down to Galveston. This trip had three purposes: first, to be a fun thing to do with Fig; second, to take pictures for my photography class homework; and third, to celebrate my…
I’ve been through two weeks of photography class and I love it! I thought I’d share the photos that I’ve taken for weekly assignments so far. Week One’s assignment was to learn about depth of field and aperture. So we were to line up three objects and take three photos. In the first one, just…
Something exciting happened this week — I started a four-week photography course at the Houston Center for Photography! I’ve been wanting to do one for my job for a while, and I finally gave up on the place where I usually take my classes ever doing a digital photo class again so I found this one…
First of all, thank you for reading this. I started off with a bang and I feel like I’ve been moving along with a whimper so I appreciate you sticking with me through the fits and starts. Good news – I have finished another Thing! We did Meatless Monday for Three Months, including this stew/chili…
Forty-Two Things by 42 