A Raising Autism Blog The Italian tour over, we were back to “regular” life. I was still working at this time, though I’d lose my job just a month and a half later, an event compounded because I was in the midst of my daughter’s challenges. I remember one particularly bad day. I always workedContinue reading “Spinning: Helping Autistic Girls Become Women, Part 2”
Category Archives: Surviving Facts
Not So Crazy Talk
A Surviving Facts Blog We are living an upside down, inside out reality. Ten years ago, QANON was in full force, pushing out conspiracy theories like a Texas trad wife bearing offspring. Remember Pizzagate claiming Hillary Clinton was running a child pornography ring out of the basement of a Maryland pizza restaurant with no basement?Continue reading “Not So Crazy Talk”
Exciting Announcement!
Two years ago, I was called into an early morning meeting. At the age of 60, my corporate career was suddenly over. It was a tough time, and I needed guidance. None was available. So I wrote it myself. My new book, You’re Always 39: How to recover from late career job loss and reinventContinue reading “Exciting Announcement!”
Hags, Witches and Grams: Images of Aging Women in Popular Culture
Excerpt from You’re Always 39: How to manage and recover from late career job loss and reinvent yourself, my book coming out in October 2026! Around ten years ago, I was in a video meeting focused on fixing an issue with a struggling product. Customer sales and satisfaction had plummeted, affecting the company’s core business.Continue reading “Hags, Witches and Grams: Images of Aging Women in Popular Culture “
Cornhole and the Olympics?
An I-have-no-idea-what-series-this belongs-to Blog Curling has been rocked by scandal. While I haven’t figured it out yet, or even read anything about it, the breaking news story is that the Swedes have accused the Canadians of cheating by tapping the granite rock with a finger as it passes the “hog line,” the line over whichContinue reading “Cornhole and the Olympics?”
Dogs and MAGA Dissonance
A Surviving Facts Blog A friend recently gave my dogs their now favorite toy: an Orange-meister squeaker toy. I had no idea the joy I would have watching them rip the doll apart. Now, my MAGA friends may want to declare me horribly disrespectful, misguided and vile. To this I say, “do what you must.”Continue reading “Dogs and MAGA Dissonance”
White people don’t get it
A Surviving Facts Blog for Black History Month Please note: this blog in no ways intends to minimize the atrocities the Jewish people have experienced for millennia. Jews were slaves long before Africans were brought to America and were tortured by numerous societies before Hitler. I based my comments on the fact that Hitler studiedContinue reading “White people don’t get it”
Nara doesn’t eat cake
A Surviving Facts Blog As I’ve shared before, I’ve spent too many hours— mouth agape except for muttered curse words— exploring the trad wife trend on social media. One of the early influencers in this area— although I don’t think the trad wife category really fits her— is Nara Smith. Nara, now a mother ofContinue reading “Nara doesn’t eat cake”
Is it a Ho Ho or the Apocalypse?
A Surviving Facts Blog (though it feels like the end of the world as we know it) My depression looks like a half eaten Ho Ho, an imitation one because this came from a bakery rather than a box. I’ve been eating healthy— make good choices, I say to myself— but I succumbed yesterday justContinue reading “Is it a Ho Ho or the Apocalypse?”
I got nuttin’
A Surviving Facts Blog I am paralyzed— emotionally, mentally and physically. I have words to write, deadlines to make, a small business to run… and I can’t. I watch Substack videos, read news articles, compare coverage to see viewpoint differences. I try to make sense of what I hear, I cant. I cannot comprehend sentences.Continue reading “I got nuttin’”
Walk the Moon 