I see it has been a while since I have last graced this page. Life has been busy, and well, I haven’t made writing a priority. So many priorities! But…if everything is a priority, then what actually is?

To give a brief rundown of what I have been doing since our last chat (which was during the panini), I have:

• Quit my job working in oncology, and took a school nurse job
• Went back to school and finished a bachelor’s degree (finally)
• Lost a shit load of weight
• Taken up baking sourdough bread…which is neither sour, nor is it always bread
• Trying to become a better raised garden bed tender
• Diagnosed with PTSD and ADHD (this was also fun)

Tiny Tyrant is less tiny, and maybe more tyrant. Which is fine. My husband and I are not raising someone who was meant to be small in life. We are filling her with all good things: like accurate history, the great works of people who not all old white guys, and delicious empanadas.

Since I graduated, it has been pointed out that I don’t really do a lot for myself. I used to write a lot. I haven’t. I have tons of projects/hobbies I have tried to pick up and abandoned because something else seemed more important (thanks, ADHD!) I got stuck mentally, and it seemed next to impossible to get out of. Just goes to show that the unconditional love of an extremely patient spouse and properly dialed in medication can conquer all!

I turn 50 in a couple of weeks, and I find myself going back and forth between excitement and existential dread. We’ll get into that later.

So, I guess this is my opening salvo to try to resurrect this blog. I know no one really blogs anymore, but blogging has been a very important facet in my life. It was a good release of pent-up feelings, but it also gave me my husband, and subsequently Tiny Tyrant. I’m not interested in starting a podcast or being a content creator on TikTok or YouTube.

And away we go!