Category: escape wisely

May Mourning

May brings the tease of spring: bright sun, heavy showers, and blooms. It brings reasons to call on your friends, your family. It also brings pain. Grief. Of those lost, those who lost themselves, and almost losing me. STICKER SHOOK I held my husband’s hand on a summer day In our mini van that he…
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(donkeys)

My husband and I recently visited Naperville, Illinois. This was a parents only trip. Although the temperatures were offensively cold, the ability to sit down at a meal and give each other attention was much overdue. We are a “sit down as a family and eat” family. With three children aged 12, 9, and 5,…
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Doomscrolling Letters

My days are quiet. At times, the quiet feels like that moment in a movie where some pivotable realization occurs to the protagonist and the viewer instantly floods with empathy. At other times, I just want to talk to someone. Enter the wild west of social media. I make a conscious effort to not open…
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