Month: March 2026
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From Burnout to Spark
Today’s Almost Daily Dispatch comes to you from a Walmart parking lot in the Pacific Northwest. A Walmart parking lot, you ask? Behold: your friendly, neighborhood Walmart Spark Delivery Driver. Even a semi-retired, fifty-something, recovering burnout needs to make some scratch. Let’s be real: Momma needs her Botox money. I wanted to return to the…
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IBS – Getting my shit straight, literally and figuratively
The aforementioned ambulance ride from a McDonald’s restroom in Belfair to the ER in Silverdale culminated in a very unyielding, very humbling diagnosis: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). An IBS flare is one of the most leveling experiences a person can endure. The intestinal pain can send you to your knees. As someone who has gone…
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Our Amy
What’s something most people don’t understand? From the outside looking in, we get it, we know. We understand that it is hard for you to understand. Our family dynamics are different; they have been since that fateful day in September of 1975. Amy, my younger sister, does not fit societal norms. Born with microcephaly due…
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365 for a 180
The turning of the wheel. Before we dive deep into this dispatch from the very rainy, soggy coast of the PNW, I would like to ground us in a few core concepts. These are the three pillars of my belief system and how I navigate this journey. The Source: I believe in one all-knowing, all-loving,…
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“Quitter”
The sirens on the way to Silverdale were a screaming reminder that the math just wasn’t adding up anymore. For eleven years, I’d been calculating my life in “years to retirement,” like a prisoner marking days on a cell wall. But while my brain was focused on that 20-year “sweet spot,” my body had started…
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Capital D – Done
So I hear that “old school” Mommy blogs may be having a come back. Far be it from me to miss out on a passing fad, so here we are. My first blog post. I have been a writer from the time I could put pencil to paper and craft sentences. I have always loved…
Joy On A Journey 