Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind. Not getting clear with a colleague about expectations because it feels too hard, yet holding them accountable or blaming […]
Cathardic D&D
D&D is so cathartic as a player. You can go flirt with pompous theater actors and get your face painted at the market because you’re […]
Solar Eclipse
I am not in the path of totality. I didn’t even get eclipse glasses. I have thought little about the energy an eclipse could bring. […]
Little Fire
Little fire in the darkNothing more than a sparkIt doesn’t take much oxygenTo fan the flames of hope again With Love, Natalie
Saturday, Recovering
I am operating at 85-90% but I almost feel like a person again — clean home, mopped floors and all, catching up on studying, and […]
Vitamin-Deficient
I’ve been kind of vitamin-deficientUnless you count the gummiesTwo a day, pretend they fill out the food pyramidWhich isn’t a good model anywayAnother bit of […]
Complaining
Work eleven hoursMeditate: nineteen minutesCough yourself to sleep (I don’t have honeyIn the house and I don’t likehoney in my mouth) But the WiFi’s backAnd […]
Wednesday Check-In
Life looks like: watching an early Aughts’ Supernanny episode on Youtube when I wake up too early because it showed up in my feed and […]
April Showers
If my heart looked like my window panes todayIt’d be battered with sleet and snowA season over, then back againA moment of calm, then there’s […]
Nested IF Functions & Who Am I Anymore?
After that Multiple Criteria VLOOKUP miracle last month, apparently now I’m the kind of person who thinks I can write Excel formulas. I am really, […]