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The Boiling Point of Bipolar
Irritability is one of my hardest struggles with bipolar life. Sometimes I feel so angry I don’t know what to do with myself. It reminds me of the show Inside Out with the wrath character. It doesn’t have to be reasonable or justified, I feel what I feel, and sometimes I need someone to put…
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250 Years but not Mine
It’s hard to celebrate 250 years of independence that don’t actually belong to me. This is a white man’s holiday, one that doesn’t match up with my blackness, my female identity, nor my disabled status. Black people were not free until June 19, 1865 and Juneteenth is a product of that. From 1776, that puts…
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Ye Olde Snail Mail
We should go back to writing snail mail letters to one another, on scrapbooking paper, in ink. Maybe then we would choose our words more carefully and write love letters again. It would have to be in cursive, like a secret code only some generations get. We would have to be purposeful in selecting an…