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Careful What You Wish For...

Update on the state of my marriage...

This is, bar none, the most emotionally intense and confusing period of my life. I spent the last year sorting out my issues, trying to figure out how to make enough money to pay the bills, trying to repair my marriage.

Happy Birthday to Me

Today it's my birthday, and as some of you know, it is a difficult period in my life. The unemployment issue is not as daunting as it used to be thanks to a solid year of hustling my butt off, but other things have got me in a twist. Going to therapy and working on it.

It's hard to look at yourself, but it's necessary. Nobody wants to glimpse those dark corners of their psyches, but you have to do it to clear out the nasty things that, left unchecked, grow there.

On my Biggest Failure (I might regret posting this)

This might end up being one of those posts that I wish I had written in my notebook instead of sharing it with the world, but I'm tired of writing in my notebook after seven weeks of being unable to type. Thinking that the world gives a crap about my problems is vain, and creating a document that only I will see is masturbatory. Maybe I'm about to make a big mistake by posting this.

Fuck it. It damn sure won't be the first big mistake I've made.

Ten Great Gifts to Give Even if You Are Unemployed

So you're unemployed and bummed out about not having enough scratch to afford a halfway decent HanuKwanzmas for your family. Not that it's any consolation, but you're not alone. At least one other person knows the feeling: me.

What helps me feel better is the realization that even though I don't have money for the latest plastic toys hand-made by Santa's little elves in sweatworkshops in a far away land called China, I still have a lot to give.

Below are

Ten wonderful presents to give even if you're flat broke:

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