If I Don’t Actually see This Goddammed Goldfinch Real Soon, I’m Gonna kill all These Birds with my Bare Fucking Hands

Hey Grandma, what did you do when democracy was dying? Well kids, every single day, I went to work, and then I went outside to stare at trees until it was dark. You must’ve gotten a lot of bug bites grandma. I Sure did, kids. I sure did. This dystopia is not at all what […]

Your Guardian Angel Only Shows when You’re Sleeping Because She’s Got Other Shit to Do.

There is a somewhat depressing but highly accurate article in the New Yorker this week about how easy it is for the elderly to lose their rights through a court appointed guardian. It sums up the stress and distress of the last job I had as a case manager for a guardianship agency. How stressful […]

America First! as Long as You Mean Americans Killing Foreigners

Our adorable albino Ken Doll of a VP Mike Pence claimed this week that the GOP Health Care Bill will strengthen Medicaid. Sure, cuts of $700 billion is a way to strengthen the program. Good job, liar. Why diss Medicaid when it is more cost effective than private insurance right now. Maybe I’m a little sore […]

Dying is easy, it’s living that’s hard.

In 1997 I was dragged into the world of Medicaid Service Coordination by my developmentally disabled daughter who desperately needed services. I was yelling and screaming at everyone then and unfortunately haven’t been able to stop since. There have been many roles for me personally and professionally as a direct provider and advocate. I’m not […]

Mitch McConnell Officially Makes my Shit List.

We are the stories that we tell ourselves…. It’s a psedo-businessey mantra that I have laminated in my office to remind myself of something, but I’m not sure what that would be today. Today was a bad day. I had no good story to tell myself but instead felt like someone else was narrating a […]

As the Truck Says…

Thanks to a fatal car crash on Interstate 70, I took a detour last week through Trump country. I equally commiserate with and loathe these people. Being ½ hillbilly myself, I’ve suppressed many comments at family gatherings about politics in general and Mr. Trump specifically. I realize that this makes me part of the problem but […]

Entitlement Benefits: Part 1 of the Disability Holy Trinity

Parents of disabled kids are always on the internet yammering away about something tragic or poignant. Some are more elegant than others (see the exceedingly beautiful essayhttp://velamag.com/superbabies-dont-cry/), but all parents of “specials” experience our children in a pointedly unique way. To put some corporate jargon spin on it, we are afforded more opportunities to “syngerize” […]