About This Blog

About This Blog

The Interrobang Me Hard, Baby blog will cover the broad strokes of my life, in no particular order or category. I tend to narrate events in my head, particularly when things are stressful and I am searching for solutions or coping mechanisms, so I thought I would start writing these narratives down. Enough people have told me that I should write a book that I figured it was time to see if anyone actually wants to read my stories.

I am a Mom and a Teacher, among other things. Some topics you can expect are:

• Mental Health, including but not limited to ADHD, anxiety, Borderline Personality Disorder, OCD, suicidal ideation and self-harm, Bipolar Disorder, Giftedness
• Parenting, including but not limited to parenting a child with chronic illness and mental health struggles, single parenting, being a single working mother, parenting in a multi-generational household, parenting an LGBTQ child
• Complicated family and friendship dynamics 🙂
• Marriage, divorce, emotional abuse
• Reading and writing, book recommendations, quotes and the like
• Coping with chronic pain and long term concussion issues
• Trauma in all its forms, psychology and the different types of therapy I have engaged in over the years, as well as recommended books that I have read at the suggestion of different psychologists over the years
• Teaching and learning both in and out of the education system
• Essays on novels that I have had intense emotional responses to, some of which I have read several times in succession or several times over the years

I hope that you will relate to some of these posts, and that you will share them with the people in your life who may benefit from knowing that no matter how dark things get or how twisted up we feel, we are never truly alone in our struggles.

I write this under a pen name for privacy concerns, as I write about my child often (with it’s permission) and divulge very private information about my relationships, both past and current. Much as I agree with Anne Lamott that “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.” I would rather not be sued by people whose privacy I do indeed respect.

Finally, I do indeed own these stories. I own what has happened in my life, my ensuing responses whether healthy or otherwise, and nothing is embellished or exaggerated.