Everydaystranger

I suppose the honest truth is that I don’t know what to write here anymore.
I have been told – perhaps not unjustly, but just a little bit harshly – that this has become something of a Mommy Blog, and that there are enough Mommy Blogs out there. I do talk about the babies [...]

I am in three days of business workshops.
Three. Days.
I am the organizer and host of these meetings. I must keep things moving. At times I wonder if I should dig out my diploma (I have it somewhere, in the bottom of a drawer, only I never know which drawer I only know I have [...]

On Thursday last week I had a business meeting in the local office.
This, in itself, is not a change. What was a change is that it was an external meeting, and as such it got to be catered. Catering is One of Those Things that isn’t really done anymore, courtesy of our friend [...]

“You’re running late,” she says to me.
“I know. Story of my life,” I say, almost wryly, punching my details into the automatic check-in kiosk. It beeps unceremoniously at me. I feel like punching the screen.
“You’ve lost weight,” she counters.
“I have,” I acknowledge. I bought a wine-colored top while on this business [...]

I am on a business trip. It is the first one in a while. There is another one to come next week.
Once upon a time I loved business trips. I loved all that came with a business trip – filling out the form for a manager to sign, the manager reading through the [...]

All resources remain focussed elsewhere just now.
I’ll be back soon-ish.
-S.

I am going through what is – without question – the worst time of my life, and I have had a very tumultuous life.
I even feel the need to add the words “so far” to the end of that sentence.
I am going to be offline for a while. I won’t be here. [...]

Something has changed.
It would have been better if it hadn’t have changed. It would have been easier.
Things are often not easy.
You feel shaky and alone. Change is always hard to manage, hard to handle. People fear change. You don’t fear change, change has been the pattern of your entire [...]