Today is one of those days that I am calling a success because I stayed at work all my scheduled hours and didn’t leave early to sob in bed with cats. Some days this feels like a failure. I have become so afraid of other people knowing I’m as crazy as I am that I stay in places that make me want to hurt…

I haven’t been doing well lately.

My mom came up this last weekend to help me clean my house. I hadn’t cleaned anything in…6 weeks or so. There were flies everywhere from the rotten groceries I forgot to put in the fridge and just left on the floor. There were…

Grief, Marriage, Children, and Death When You Weren’t Expecting It

I’ve been passively suicidal since I was…11 or 12 years old. We can blame it on a multitude of things, but recounting my continuous trauma and ways that many people told me I was not welcome or…

On Graduation, moving on, and cats.

It’s pretty well known that I am incapable of getting through a conversation without talking about my cats. I have a three-year-old brown tabby named Simon, who is a very sassy but snuggly cat, and four 12-week old foster kittens…