Sometimes, I get really bogged down in the why-me's.
Why did MY marriage fail? statistically speaking, it shouldn't have happened. We dated 3 years before getting engaged. I didn't get married until I was 27. I waited to have my first child at 31. We were...
I have watched for years as a Facebook acquaintance grappled with the loss of her sister from cancer. First, it was news of bad tests. Then, it was the hope of remission. Then, more bad tests. Then, less hope. Then, it was only a matter...
The latest venom my ex husband spat via email was, "I won't be wasting another minute of my life trying to explain something to you." This came after I asked simple and reasonable questions regarding the split of our financial lives. You see, he's a...
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Divorce
by Shannon Lell
Today has been about pictures and ghosts because my house is haunted.
My Kindergartener has one of those "About Me" posters due in school in a month. Normally, I am a professional procrastinator with a black belt in inventing distractions. Something like this wouldn't get my...
My oldest is 5 years old, so that means I haven't celebrated New Year's Eve in any significant way for six, pregnant, breastfeeding, infant, toddler, kid years. But this New Year's Eve, I was lacking all of these things because the kids left for their...
She learned about Mother's Day at her preschool. Every year the teachers spend days making special projects for us Mommies. They splatter paint canvases on "Jackson Pollack Day" which they wrap in hand painted dish towels and tie with a bow. The kids fill out...
I don't know how to write this post without making myself look like a total asshole. So I won't. Because I am being a total asshole. At least recently.
I have been having the most horrible, mean-spirited and hateful thoughts about another person and no amount...
The kids' toys have invaded every room of my house and it's making me little crazy. Right now, there are three rooms in desperate need of painting, a brigade of dandelions invading my garden, and stacks of papers that have built up over a dreary,...
Grace.
It was the word the yoga instructor asked us to think about moments before starting our 90 minute practice on Thanksgiving morning. This annual, Thanksgiving class is free, but donations are accepted to benefit a nonprofit organization and this year it was Yoga Behind Bars....