Into the Wilderness
- 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 “
- Bob’s Your UncleInto the Wilderness: Story 61 The scenario. You’re eating Cheerios with oat milk, stepping snow-logged boots onto your commuter bus or simply sitting at your desk with a nice cold foam brew when it happens. A memory laden with rage or despair roils out of your synapses and your lungs clench in a breathless remembrance.Continue reading “Bob’s Your Uncle”
- The Ghosts of ChristmasInto the Wilderness: Story 60 Christmas Past My father sits in an avocado-green velvet chair, a large Waterford glass with bourbon on the rocks in his hand. In the kitchen, my mother rushes from the oven to the fridge and to the marble confectioner’s table she uses as a kitchen island. She is finishing ChristmasContinue reading “The Ghosts of Christmas”
- CreviceInto the Wilderness: Story 59 I’ve been thinking a lot about attachment. Some people can cut people out of their lives as simply as lancing a pimple. Slash and the connection is gone. Not me. I’m more like the grown-too-big baby kangaroo no longer able to fit in its mama’s warm pouch. I keep tryingContinue reading “Crevice”
- I failed my MRI, and I’m alive because of itInto the Wilderness: Story 58 Ten years ago, I was hospitalized with acute abdominal pain. My temperature was 105, and I was vomiting and crying with pain. Less than an hour later, after an MRI with contrast, the young, extremely tall doctor pronounced: “gallstone-induced pancreatitis.” A gallstone had lodged in my biliary duct. The resultContinue reading “I failed my MRI, and I’m alive because of it”
- Please, And Thank YouWe are entering the holiday season when gratitude, gatherings and gifting carry us to year’s end. I rarely ask for favors or gifts, but I am boldly asking for one now. If you have not done so, will you please, dear readers, directly subscribe to this blog? It’s simple to do. Just go to walk-the-moon.comContinue reading “Please, And Thank You”
- Bad GirlsI haven’t shared a poem in years. Here’s a new one. Here’s to the bad girls, The ones who rise at midnight, Twitching for a fix Of wind in the valley or snow in the city. They rise and watch for ways to break Crystal and ceramics and stand- Ards forced by birth. These badContinue reading “Bad Girls”
- We need neurodivergenceA Raising Autism blog Whenever I hear RFK Jr. speak about autism, fear builds inside me. He talks about ridding the world of children with ASD. He speaks about them as unproductive members of society, harming the general social good. He continues to blame vaccines when the ASD and vaccine connection has been long debunked-Continue reading “We need neurodivergence”
- Oops! I did it again.A Raising Autism blog I’ve written about girls on the spectrum many times. Both of my girls are ASD, and each have unique challenges. My younger daughter struggles with angry outbursts and self esteem. My older daughter represses emotions until she implodes-or explodes- both words work. Either way, the fallout envelops me like a roilingContinue reading “Oops! I did it again.”
- On the Spectrum-RepublishedInto the Wilderness: Story 12 Raising Autism: Survey 101 I have yet to write about ASD, or Autism Spectrum Disorder. That’s because we had yet to make the connection. Girls are less likely than boys to be diagnosed with ASD, even when they manifest typical behaviors. Currently, boys outnumber girls with autism four to oneContinue reading “On the Spectrum-Republished”
Surviving Facts
- 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 DissonanceA 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 itA 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 cakeA 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”
- 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 DissonanceA 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 itA 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 cakeA 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”
Walk the Moon 