Always Worried

Aren’t we all always worried about how we are screwing up our kids? My kids are 14 and 10. In ‘Corona times’ I found myself noticing my screw-ups even more. I am sad. I am letting my kids down. I don’t know how to lift me up, how on earth can I lift them? There […]

Your Life History in 20 Questions: Q13 and Q14

Q13: As you look back over these experiences, what are your happiest memories? What is it about those experiences that made them enjoyable? Creating something new has always made me happiest. My first memory of this is when I created a log for my income when I started babysitting at 12 years old. I created […]

Remind me to tell you about the tractor funeral and the priest. No, it’s not a punch line – it happened!

Phase 1 of the coronavirus reopening began in Upstate New York around May 21st. My family and I packed our car with all of our needs for school and work and got away from NYC. NYC was difficult and we needed to retreat to our favorite place, The Farm. The Farm is a home that […]

Your Life History in 20 Questions

That’s a deep title. It was the first assignment in a Coursera course titled “Career Decisions: From Insight to Impact”. Coursera offers free classes and I have been struggling with my career choices since getting my masters degree and then getting my diagnosis. I realized I have spent so much time running and due to […]

My New Identity

So now that I have all of this information, I have created yet another place where I don’t know where I belong. I have always felt like I am an outsider, even in my own body. I look in the mirror and see something very different than what I think I look like. I’m not […]

Hi, I’m Sarah and you are my family.

Now what?! I am an introvert. I want to meet these people! I am terrified. They didn’t know about me, will they be mean? The first step, have a phone conversation. I am also allergic to those! But, I really wanted to speak to someone. So I picked up the phone and called Joe, Rena […]