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Today marks one year since I was laid off from a role I had for over six years. I still remember exactly what I was doing when I received the dreaded email from someone I thought I could trust. No, just kidding. I knew he wasn't someone...
Today, I’m 38.Thirty-seven was a year that was. It was a year of loss. I found out I was being laid off the day after my birthday. Nearly a year later, I lost my soul dog. Between those two losses (and a million other things), I feel...
Four years into living in our house, and somehow it feels colder than it did before. I think it’s because we bought this house with Cocoa in mind. We wanted a safe neighborhood so we could take her out at 3AM and still feel safe1. We...
I had a best friend in middle school. Our birthdays are two days apart, except I’m a year older than her. For two days every year, we would joke that we were the same age. It was one of those silly little things that probably didn’t mean...
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Dearest Cocoa, Today marks one month (31 days) since you’ve been gone. I don’t know how we’ve survived this long without you. It honestly doesn’t feel like it has been a month, and yet, somehow, it has felt like an eternity. I wake up...
I attended a running event last night after work to celebrate National Latina Day. It was a 5K run/walk, and I opted to just walk with LC. Yesterday also marked one month since Cocoa was able to walk. We honored her memory by walking...
📌 I'm a little behind in putting up my #bookshelf books for 2026 but it's in the works. 📚 Book 18 of 2026 - Finished (8/19): The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman (5/5⭐) When I picked up this book, I honestly didn't realize it was...
I'm a little behind and just realized that Bear blog now gives users the option to add a Previous and Next to a blog post template. This allows readers to navigate to your Previous or Next blog post without having to go back to your...
It's absolutely on brand for me to start a new series, Life Lately, disappear for a couple of months, and then come back without mentioning it again. It was not on purpose, I promise. I even had a draft from May 24th that I never got to...
The past few days have felt HEAVY. I'm consistently pushing myself to keep going, but lately it feels like I'm walking through molasses. I continue to float aimlessly, moving forward without really knowing where I'm going. Most of the...
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Bought 2 pins to add to my collection today. Sometimes you just see pins at a store and they immediately call to you. These pins did exactly that. I thought they were very appropriate for how I've been feeling lately. Reply by email
For the entirety of Cocoa's life, people constantly misspelled her name when referring to her, even if 98% of the time the spelling was literally RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR FACES. It has always bothered me, and there was a 50/50 chance on...
I was drawn to the Stop sign turned art, so I decided to take a photo of it -- in Guerneville, CA Related: We The People Matter Reply by email