Interrobang Me Hard, Baby

Tag: emotional processing

  • Quitting Smoking One Last Time (hit me baby one more time)

    March 20, 2026 Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt… literally. Two times ago, when I wanted to quit on Feb 1st, I ended up going to a one person performance called “A Brief History of Smoking Cigarettes”, written and performed by Deanna Jones. I had come by the tickets in a serendipitous fashion, so…

  • Unstuck in Time…

    November 2025 (I’m pretty sure) I don’t even know what day it is. Sometimes I have to really think to figure out the month, or the year, or my actual age. I recently turned 50 and had to keep reminding myself that I wasn’t turning 40, or 30, or 60. I just knew it was…

  • Circle Game

    I almost never do this; write a post that I intend to publish immediately without worrying and overthinking about how to frame my thoughts. Nothing but a cursory edit. My dreams are sad and dark lately. Sad for my younger self as I navigate parenting my now adult child.  I am sitting in a waiting room…

  • Controlled Serendipity?! 

    Monday, June 24, 2024 Serendipity  From Oxford Languages: Synonyms: Chance, boon, fortune Origin 1754: coined by Horace Walpole, suggested by The Three Princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale in which the heroes ‘were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of’. I am in a…