The house is quiet for a change, even though everyone is home. I am here on a weekday during the day, after picking Sam up from school early with a suspected migraine. I really needed this time off work. Working full time at 52 is much harder than doing so at 40 and 41. For […]

It’s been an exhausting couple of days. On Sunday night, Sam told me he felt something “go wrong” inside his abdomen, but it was Sunday night and something always goes wrong with his body on Sunday night to make sure that he doesn’t go to school on Monday. On Monday, he still complained of severe […]

It’s said that only boring people are bored, but I say “bullshit!” to that. Having chronic mental illness or a disability can mean that sustaining interest in things can be hard if not impossible and not all of us can be entertained by the mundane lives that are thrust upon us. My mother always says […]

I told you things could turn on a dime. Just like that, last Friday afternoon, a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders when I was offered a job in Geelong. It’s a permanent, full-time position in the disability sector and you would not believe the relief I felt when I found out. My shoulders […]

Things feel so hard right now. And yet they could turn on a dime. Tomorrow I might get a job offer. Or even two. One would mean we move, the other we stay. It’s been impossible to get a rental in Geelong because I don’t have a job. Not even offers of 3 months’ rent […]