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2018-09-27 Lots Of 💩 Today
Sometimes I’m a chicken shit. It stands to reason because by dad is kind of a chicken shit too. Well, not kind of. He IS a chicken shit. Passive and at times passive aggressive. I would not say I’m passive aggressive, but when it comes to delivering bad news or telling someone no, I will…
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2018-09-25 Failure is Not an Option
Today would be the perfect day to write something new about something that someone, anyone, would find valuable. Anything different and interesting would do, a cheeseburger revue, or an artistic opinion on some local issue. But I’m coming up empty. My mind is completely trained on a different objective…. poetry. Well not poetry exactly, because…
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2018-09-24 Welcome to Monday
Despite being jammed up with school and work I’m super excited about the start of this week. Despite the cooler temps and autumn taking over, I’m stoked about shift in seasons. There a spring in my step and the fact that winter is coming, I’m happy. That’s life folks. Sometimes it hands you lemons and…
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2018-09-23 Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings
Real life… Last night I went to Jim’s house. We sat on the couch for a few hours talking and drinking and I got drunk and had a great time. We talked about all sorts of random things moving from topic to topic, losing track of things we wanted to say and the number of…
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2018-09-22 Weekly Wrap-Up
It’s Saturday and I’ve had a heck of a week and a healthy dose of reality check on multiple levels. Weights were lifted and new burdens took center stage in the SugarCookie world. Daily I remind myself that the future will be fantastic no matter what I choose. The best news ever is that now…
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2018-09-21 On Inspiration and Nostalgia
Some days I think about writing poetry and I’m all like “I got nothin”. Other days I start thinking about life and my history and the music in my ears and everything seems like a poem begging to be born. I’ve been around the block and I’ve experienced a lot of shit. Some of it…
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2018-09-20 Random Rambling
Not sure where this should start and no clue where it might go. I sacrificed my morning cardio to be at Jim’s house to let the maintenance guy in. I worked from his house which was half Work Work and half just checking things off my personal to-do list. Both are never ending. Now it’s…
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2018-08-19 September Sunshine ☀️🍅☀️🍉☀️🍎☀️
Yesterday was one long day. I woke up at 6:50am feeling exhausted. I went to sleep shortly after midnight and though I know I slept, my mind was so active with dreams I feel like I had no rest and no recovery. Despite that, here I am at the gym trying to follow my normal…
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2018-09-18 Half an Hour Before Midnight
I’ve got 27 minutes left in this day. It has been a very, very long time since I was up this late (that I can recall) and I’ve had a very, very long day. It started before 6AM. I cursed waking up in the 5AM hour and tried hard to get another half an hour,…
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2018-09-18 Letting Go
It’s tough when you are in the middle of grief. There’s a method to the madness that includes anger and denial and acceptance and bargaining and depression. It can be a visious cycle, downward spiral, and at times the “acceptance” stage can seem like an impossible uphill climb. Even for the most logical mind, the…
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2018-09-17 A Day Late and More than a Dollar Short
I took the liberty on Sunday to lay around the house all freaking day and not do a damn thing. It was glorious. Jim and I binge-watched our show, Colony, and ran out of episodes. I needed the weekend to decompress from my vacation and all the thoughts raging in my head about .. everything.…
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2018-09-15 What a Girl Wants
Last night being picked up at the airport and taken home by my love was the best homecoming ever. He recognized I just needed sleep and to be in my own bed. He took me to the airport early, early on Monday and picked me up late on Friday and would not have it any…
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