This week’s FMF writing prompt is: CONVENIENT What a prompt. My head’s going all over with it. The first thing that comes to mind is convenient food. I hate it. […]
Category: Depression
Anxiety, codependence, Depression, Divorce, Dogs, Five minute freewrite, Five Minute Friday, Life after divorce

Life is better.
The first FMF writing prompt for 2019 is: BETTER Life is better. It’s full of struggling to balance two jobs with taking care of elderly pets and trying to squeeze […]
Apartment living, Changing careers, Coursera, Depression, Divorce, General, Mental health, NaNoCertMo, Online classes, Online learning

Section 3: Package and Software Management
This suuuuucks. Three sections to go, and not much of November left. I let myself get pulled into taking care of someone who needs to learn to take care of […]
Career Change, Changing careers, codependence, Depression, General, Life after divorce, Online classes, Online learning, PowerShell

NaNoCertMo: Navigating the System
I finished the first section, which is meant to take seven days, in five days. This will eventually catch me up in the class, so that I finish on time […]
Anxiety, Career Change, Changing careers, Coursera, Depression, Divorce, Five minute freewrite, Five Minute Friday, General, Life after divorce, Mental health, Online classes, Online learning

Repeat: The quick, quick version
This week’s Five Minute Friday writing prompt is: REPEAT. Hi. My name’s Jae, and this is my brother Pete, and my other brother Repeat. You guys. Holy cow. I’ve taken […]
Anxiety, Blogging challenge, Depression, Five minute freewrite, Five Minute Friday, General, Life after divorce, Mental health, October, Post of Nope, Self care, Write 31 Days, Writers block, Writing challenge

Insane courage, lodgepole pine, and having a voice
Today’s Five Minute Freewrite prompt is: VOICE I’m not writing today because my voice is not important. My voice got me in trouble when I used it as a kid, […]
Anxiety, Blogging challenge, Depression, Dogs, General, Jigsaw Puzzles, Life after divorce, Pets, Post of Nope, Puzzles, Write 31 Days, Writing challenge

Personality defrag
The Write 31 Days prompt for today is: The struggle is real. What’s yours? For nearly the last two years, I’ve been doing the work of pulling myself together. For […]
Anxiety, Apartment living, Blogging challenge, codependence, Depression, Dogs, General, Life after divorce, Pets, Post of Nope, Self care, teacup chupacabra, Write 31 Days, Writing challenge

It’s my first ex-anniversary, and boy are my arms tired
Twelve years ago today, I made some vows with and to another adult human. The vows were real flippin’ easy ones, and they were the same for both of us. […]
Anxiety, Blogging challenge, Depression, General, Post of Nope, Self care, Write 31 Days, Writers block, Writing challenge

This post was filmed before a live imaginary audience.
Today’s Write 31 Days prompt is: Audience. I’m constantly trying to sneak things past my own internal censor. She’s a fiend with a massive sharpie. (Sometimes a sharpie is just […]
12 step, Anxiety, CoDA, codependence, Depression, Five minute freewrite, Five Minute Friday, General, Life after divorce, Mental health, Post of Nope, Self care, Write 31 Days, Writing challenge

Sundowners in Whoville
This week’s Five Minute Friday writing prompt is: WHO. I really want to write something about Doctor Who here, but my brain is too tired to be clever. There isn’t […]