Stressed for the Season

Photo by Nicole Michalou on Pexels.com I'm not well. Mentally unhinged, but by far not my worse bout of whatever the fuck this is. It started before Thanksgiving. I was coasting through Thanksgiving, letting whatever happens to the mercy of the universe. I was suddenly aware of myself in ways that I'm normally oblivious. The …

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Bury it in the backyard

Old post from a previous blog. Dated: 3/4/2014 Anger takes so much out of me. Its exhausting to be this angry all day. Sleep is but a whisper when I need so much if it. Coffee just stirs the acids in my stomach and gives me cramps. My lack of sleep just makes me more …

Selling Mumest & Murder at MumFest!!

I had the immense pleasure to sell my books at MumFest this year! It felt like a dream come true. I use New Bern, North Carolina as a backdrop to my cozy murder mystery because it's a beautiful, quaint, river town with loads of history! Growing up here wasn't exactly marvelous because there isn't much …

Ghosts at The Harvey

Street View Recently I was able to tour The Harvey Mansion in New Bern, NC whilst in mid-construction for its latest revival. The Harvey Mansion was built in 1810 by a merchant named John Harvey. He and his wife, Mary, lived on one side while John Harvey ran a warehouse distribution business on the other …

A Plea of Reasoning from a Prior Retail Associate: A short list of guidelines

This rant may come off a bit ableist but I want to preface that this argument is for those that are able-bodied enough to avoid these behaviors. The holidays are upon us already! Back-to-school shopping started in July. Retail companies are already putting out Christmas decorations. If you've never worked retail or any job with …

Boomer Feminism: A Way to Divide Us in the War Against Minorities & The 99%

Photo by Olya Kobruseva on Pexels.com Boomer Feminism: Female Purists, demanding those assigned women at birth to fight for their existence as "real" women in an attempt to have "equal rights" without really aspiring to equalize humans through their TERF stance on womanhood. https://twitter.com/mrstschinkel/status/1544119979401826305?s=20&t=zJRtpCguahbWy1GbgeNrCg https://twitter.com/ourobororoboruo/status/1544098613915172865?s=20&t=zJRtpCguahbWy1GbgeNrCg Trans humans have suffered enough. Statistically, Trans humans are the …

Kids Don’t Owe Adults Respect

It's Mother's day! Next month we celebrate Father's. It's a perfect time to discuss the traumas of childhood and how we can avoid perpetuating those traumas to our children. If you had a perfectly wonderful childhood and both your perfect parents adored you-- this isn't for you. Since I am raising two beginner-humans I feel …

The Sun Always Rises

Morehead City, North Carolina Happy Monday! I have mixed feelings about Mondays. As most people do, I suppose. There is that nagging "here we go again" feeling when you feel like a hamster on a wheel, but there is also that fresh start feeling that happens. Mondays are a fresh canvas just waiting to be …

Depp Vs Heard: My Unpopular Opinion

[TW: Feminism, ranting, domestic abuse, patriarchal bullshit] Photo by Monstera on Pexels.com Okay, sit down. Put your pitchforks away and stop kissing your Pirates of the Caribbean posters long enough to hear me out. The fandom of Johnny Depp is skewing your perception of right and wrong, and your misogyny is making it easy to …

Happy Earth Day

It's a beautiful day out. Some states were covered in snow over the last few days while my part of NC grew warmer and clear skied. The kids have been on spring break and we're in the home stretch to summer break. All of these things tend to pull me out of depression, uplift me …