Elro is 9 months old so we paint with our hands every Sunday. Sunday is my official craft day — as in I definitely will be making something— and I like the idea of her creating things, too. But what do you do with all the art? I’m going to go ahead and guess that…

I recently met a person who is at the beginning of their journey. They were just diagnosed as bipolar. A (correct) diagnosis is Awesome because it means there is a reason you’ve felt the way you felt and now there are solutions.  This person expressed a desire to know what to do when having a…

I didn’t expect to miss my tree so much. Maybe it’s because I made 90 percent of the ornaments or because Elro loved it — whatever it was, there was a tree shaped hole in my heart that I’ve started to fill! I bought this canopy on amazon, decorated it with paper and felt —from…

I recently had a pretty difficult morning and it left me a little shaky as I did my errands around town. At one point I felt like crying. I immediately pointed Elro’s stroller in the direction of a florist shop. When I lived in Portland, my roommate was diagnosed with MS. It was a difficult…

Despite my upbeat and colorful Instagram, I am reminded daily that I have a severe mental disorder. I am disabled af. I notice it the most when it’s time to go to sleep. It’s not just lugging out my pills (which are in a lock box) but it’s the worry that they won’t work —…

Flora is my brothers’ grandmother. I never met her but I knew her clothes because I could play dress up in them when I was a girl, because Flora was a tiny woman. She also dressed fabulously. There was one robe everyone in my family loved. When I started transforming my maternity clothes  I began…