There’s a lot to be angry about these days. ➢ My retirement fund is gone because of the greed of others. ➢ I lost my job while my boss gets a bonus. ➢ I’ve saved all my life, lived within my means and yet the irresponsible guy in default gets bailed out! Angry yet? In the blogosphere l...

Yankee Jane writes: Tracking The Decline Through A Goy Jew Not sure if you are familiar with this Los Angeles writer/blogger, Luke Ford. He’s an Australian who was raised as a Seventh Day Adventist who has converted to Judaism. He takes a lot of pills for his depression, anxiety, whatever and ...

Tell me how hard it is for a previously high functioning woman to admit she has postnatal depression. Here's the answer: Very Very Hard. It's not eased either by a societal obsession with the image of High Functioning Motherhood. (HFM aka Huge Freaking Myth). Many of us have it and "soldier&quo...

Tell me how hard it is for a previously high functioning woman to admit she has postnatal depression. Here's the answer: Very Very Hard. It's not eased either by a societal obsession with the image of High Functioning Motherhood. (HFM aka Huge Freaking Myth). Many of us have it and "soldier&quo...

Hot in my head these days has been the rest of my life. It is a strange place i am in. Single, jobless, careerless. All of those things are not really true. I have a job. I am a server, a waitress, on a bad day i make more money than the teachers in my kids school. On a good day i make as much as an...

I have been talking by email, or facebook, (are they the same thing now?) with a friend who is in Pai Thailand. I founf myself searching flights tonight. Thinking that i could actually just drop everything and go for a week. That was a pretty amazing feeling for me. Of course, though i would give aw...

Yesterday i was getting my haircut and my cute as a button hairstylist was pregnant. Just starting to show. Due in june. It was really nice chatting to her about pregnancy. First babies. It left me ruminating and dreaming of those first years of pregnancy and babies. Life was so full of possibility ...

I'm back, muthafuggas. It was close; Depression gave me a run for my money once again.  But in the end, I emerged victorious and have mopped the floor with Depression's ass.  I'd be remiss if I didn't thank my team of antidepressants and loved-ones, without whom I would surely be bench-war...