I recently bought a car for my two teenagers.  Nothing fancy.  Just a solid and safe car for them to use with all the back and forth of being children of divorced parents who have places to be and things to do when said parents are at work.  They were very excited (and appreciative) about… Continue reading Take the Radio

I met Molly, James’ ex wife, at one of their children’s birthday parties last fall.  Right before cutting the birthday cake, she walked up to me and said, “I hope you know that James is putting on quite a show for you.”  I nodded and replied, “I know he is” and then I started to… Continue reading And She Said Yes

Yes, I am a huge fan of Netflix’s Stranger Things.  There is a creepy little world/alternate universe in the show, the Upside Down, that’s inhabited by a monster.  If you haven’t seen the show, let me do a shitty job of describing the Upside Down to you. It’s very dark, lots of floating particles, viney,… Continue reading The Upside Down

I feel like I don’t have anything to say.   And that maybe I didn’t really have anything to say before either anyway.  Thought by now I would feel better.  And I don’t.  I’m in this weird phase of having long since been James’ prey and no longer his victim, but not yet a survivor.… Continue reading Girl in the War

Dear James, Happy October!   With the change of seasons from summer to fall, I was wondering if you’d had a change of heart and thought at all about apologizing to me?   No?  You still think you are the victim?  You have millions of miles to go, my friend.  So do I, compliments of… Continue reading Dear James, Part 9