Too Much Independence Day

Today, I am very unhappy. Michigan experienced out-of-the ordinary rainfall on Friday (my area got about 4-1/2″), causing power outages and flooding, including in my basement. The basement that I’ve spent the last several months and many thousands of dollars repairing and updating in the hopes of getting to the point where I don’t ever […]

Unhappy Anniversary

We publicly celebrate birthdays, romantic longevity anniversaries, and work anniversaries. We also mark sad anniversaries, like deaths and endings, but we do those privately and without support in many cases. In the next few days, I have two anniversaries. One marks the end of a relationship, and one is my birthday. Birthdays are generally a […]