This past week has, without a doubt, been the single worst week of my life.
Up to this point.
Because I am not so stupid as to tempt the gods.
It has been worse than the week my mother and I said goodbye to my Nana.  It was been worse than the week we waited to say goodbye [...]

I try not to think about what I look like.
Instead, I tend to concentrate on how I feel.  When I’m laughing or talking or twirling, I feel happy.  I feel alive.  I feel brightly colored and twinkling and like joy itself in motion.  I let the emotions bubble up from my insides until I have [...]

This is one of those days when I wish I had an anonymous blog.
Or that I was better at faking it.
I know people who do it.  They put on a happy face and pretend like nothing is wrong.  They dance for their quarters because it’s what is expected of them.  And they do it so [...]