Life
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Apollo’s Birth Story
Trigger warning: there is birth trauma and mentions of blood in this post. I’ve struggled to write Apollo’s birth story over the past year mainly because I think it has taken me that long to process everything that led to me finally holding him. In my head, the story starts at the very end, at Continue reading
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The Weakest Step
I see her in the mountains. I see her in every saguaro and palo verde and creosote bush. I feel her in every breath of wind and in the sun on my face. I hear her charging across the sky. I look all around me and she is there, breathing life into my aching heart. Continue reading
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An Announcement: Sonora
She’s gone. My little girl, my sister from the moment our eyes met, my beautiful, young, wild and spirited mare joined the Great Herd today at 12:30. Her X-rays yesterday showed further rotation in both front feet and her coffin bones were actually starting to sink. She was losing weight, her poor legs shook with Continue reading
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Rise: It’s Time To Talk About Anxiety
I won’t just survive Oh, you will see me thrive Can’t write my story I’m beyond the archetype [I heard Katy Perry’s song “Rise” around August of last year and it about blew my soul wide open. Every now and then, a song just gets under my skin and become self-defining. To me, “Rise” defines my battle with – Continue reading
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Things my boyfriend has done since downloading Pokemon Go
walked around our apartment complex at one in the morning driven to trail heads to sit in his car while hunting Pokemon asked me to download the app mourned the fact that our old apartment complex apparently had more Pokestops in it (whatever the hell those are) than our current one does left to get Continue reading
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What It’s Like to Work Full Time While Getting a Master’s Degree
[TLDR version] It’s like this: For those of you following the intriguing scattered random chronicles of my life, you’ll know I had the dumbass idea of starting a full time graduate program in January this year. I finished three classes in May then picked up two more a week later. They were six week courses and they both covered the material Continue reading
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Putting on the Hazards
Yesterday evening I was sitting in my car in the ASU Cronkite lot, putting food in my face, when a guy came up to my window and indicated I should roll it down. “Hi,” he said, “do you know you’re getting a flat tire?” I’m pretty sure it took me something like twenty seconds to Continue reading
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Time and Energy
I have started, stopped, restarted, erased, started again, and temporarily given up on about twelve blog posts over the past few months. I’ll get the idea for a post based off life observations, random epiphanies, or stories from my life that hold some kind of personal meaning (all of which stick to the theme of this Continue reading
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My 100th Post, Some Recaps, and A Farewell to Sanity
This post jumps all over the place, but then again so do I. So maybe it works out, somehow. Today I looked back a bit over this blog, which I started in April 2012. 100 posts later, I am marveling at the life journey I’ve had since I started Shorts and Snippets, particularly over this past year Continue reading
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Just Go With It: My Day Trip to the Grand Canyon
I make pilgrimages to Sedona at least every few months. I am almost always under stress (mostly because I’m still not very good with dealing with it), and Sedona is a great place for me to go rid my head of unnecessary clutter. And yesterday morning, I woke up and initially decided that since all kinds of Continue reading
Shorts and Snippets 