I drove up to Hartwell yesterday and stayed in the most ridiculous hotel room. When I booked it I assumed it would be just a big jet tub, but it turned out to be an actual 3 person Jacuzzi, in the corner of the room, a few feet from the bed. I enjoyed it despite […]
This is the story of my 2018 vacation, participating in the Bike Ride Across Georgia! Starting in Rome and ending in Hartwell, it will be seven days in the saddle, averaging 55 miles a day. I’ll be riding, pushing my bike up hills, questioning my motives, camping, making new friends (I hope), and experiencing Georgia […]
I’ve figured out a positive aspect of not having a boyfriend. On these unpredictably random days when I’ve got Pointless Anxiety draped over my shoulders like an ugly scarf, I don’t have anybody to project my BS onto. If you’re unfamiliar with Pointless Anxiety, it creeps into my rational brain and tells me that there […]
Allie Brosh has done an amazing thing. She has managed to concisely and humorously explain what it’s like to have depression. I want you to understand. I want you to get it, so I don’t always feel like such a jerk for not being riotously happy to be alive. Read this first: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html When you’re […]
Like hunger that returns each day even though I don’t want to be hungry, like breath that continues in and out of my lungs, compelled by brain signals I cannot control, like heartbeats that force my body to keep living with no conscious input from my tired mind, hope stubbornly refuses to abandon me. It […]
My life explained through Calvin & Hobbes.
Mine is not an unusual story. At 39, I find myself standing again at the edge of the dating pool, after seven months of singledom. Before then, I’d been with a wonderful man for eleven and a half years. Our relationship was comfortable and easy, but as happens, the flame of romantic love had burned […]
Steffanie Is Still Here 