Grief is weird. And, if you’re like me, you get tired of people asking how you’re feeling or if you’re okay because the answer is no or some flavor of fine, but most people don’t want to hear that. When you lose someone close to you—a beloved pet in my case—you should be allowed… Continue reading 10 Film Analogies for My Grief
I often define my life in the writing project that corresponds with that moment. From middle school to grad school, it always felt like I had something to work on: a revision, a novel, a poem, fan fiction, script, research, etc. That’s roughly fourteen years of tinkering and playing with my craft and ideas.… Continue reading Blocked or Scared: Writing the New
Cue: “Fake Happy” by Paramore. I’ve been trying to write this blog since March. I thought I was turning a corner then, or trying to but then I got busy. And it would be better to write this as a retrospective. So May, I thought, since it was Mental Health Awareness Month but… Continue reading The Depression Post
On March 9, 2020, I came home from my trip to San Antonio for AWP. On March 11, another TA asked me: “How did it feel to go to the last conference ever?” Then, on March 12, with no classes or reason to be on campus, I stayed home…And the university decided all classes… Continue reading My Isolation Survival Guide
The fun thing about lockdown is it gives you a lot of time to ponder. And, about almost two months in, when I found myself googling, “does corona make you depressed” and “living alone with mental illness during lockdown”, I knew it was going to be a fun summer. Not that this is my first… Continue reading Sad Girl Summer: Ranking My Depressive Episodes
Did anyone else have to write those terrible “here’s what I did over summer break” short responses when they were young? I feel terrible for all the kids who might be suffering the same fates in this, the Year of Covid-19, when normality as we know it is pretty much gone. Still, in the interest… Continue reading What I Did Over Summer Break 2020
I am thirteen, squished in the back rows of the bus on the way to middle school, when I hear the song for the first time. We only have two turns left until we park and climb off for another day. I am in the seventh grade. In the mornings, I buy two chocolate chip… Continue reading Taylor Swift as Greek Chorus
2018 began with me crying and laughing hysterically in a mini-van loaded up with personal belongings with a passenger window that refused to close as I drove to my mother’s instead of my new place of residence because I was scared someone might break into the van parked on the street and steal said… Continue reading Why 2018 Was The Worst
To say that the winter holidays of 2014/2015 were hard would be an understatement. The two pieces of sanity within my house were gone, leaving only The Captain and me to deal with our less-than-stellar roommate. So it seemed natural that I would be having anxiety and depression issues with how unhappy I was… Continue reading How Anxiety & Depression Ruined My Semester
Pregnancy scares are frightening even if you don’t have anxiety. The idea that your uterus might be baking up a little human while you’re watching Friends reruns isn’t a pleasant thought if it’s unexpected, ill-timed, or unwanted. Maybe children just aren’t in the plan right now or at all. Maybe a baby is… Continue reading How to Survive a Pregnancy Scare (When You Have Anxiety)
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