So Here's Us... | life on the raggedy edge.

Dear Whole Wide World,
I’m not fine.
Really, really not-fine. And it seems like our culture is built around a number of fleeting encounters that ask the question, but discourage real answers. Too time-consuming. Too uncomfortable. Too intimate. How am I?...

Sometimes, it’s a good day.
As entrenched as our family is in the business of Not-Dying, we need days like this. Even a moment like this. To remember the point of it all…
To live.

In the olden days, before PVR and Netflix, we used to watch television commercials. We didn’t like it, but the only other options were mute and dragging my lazy butt to the kitchen for a snack. So we endured. If a marketing department had done their...

There are 740 unopened emails in my inbox. I used to blog at least twice a week; this year I’ve posted once, all year. I can’t remember when I last scrubbed my toilet, mostly because I forgot where I keep the toilet brush. I know I have one. Somewhere...