The Other One (Book) https://www.Writing.Com/main/books.php/item_id/2302924 Jeanne Frances Wink February 9, 1943 - October 1, 1943 She did it HER way....I'll tell the story later but she stayed in her bed, in her own home, just as she wanted, until September 26, when she had a massive brain bleed and entered first the ER, then hospice until she died on Sunday. For 5 days she was no longer responsive, and lived on nothing but morphine and her strong, stubborn heart. Even though all I did was bitch and complain about her, I loved her... and...[Read Full Post] Wed, 04 Oct 2023 14:26:56 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1056245 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1056245 It's been nearly 9 months since I moved in with my mom, and my mental health has tanked to the point where I am feeling desperate. I'm so alone in this. Ain't no one coming along to step up to the plate. Ain't no one coming to my rescue, no respite in sight. There is only me and there is only this and there isn't any other reality. It reminds me a lot of the old days with Jonah, no way out, no way through. [Link: 'I LOSE'] If...[Read Full Post] Mon, 25 Sep 2023 11:49:29 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1056067 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1056067 And then a few hours go by and I am okay enough again. Up and down. I wish I could make some sense of it. The downs are very down, but they are not dependent on circumstance. I don't think. I'm not so good at stepping outside myself to figure it out. I'm not sure it matters. Freddy Mercury would say it does not. He might even say anyone can see that. Mine is a story in which the main character is named Rat Finklett (thanks...[Read Full Post] Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:28:22 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1054416 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1054416 âIâve never known a writer who didnât feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. Thatâs part of why we write. We feel we donât fit in, that this world is not our world, that though we may move in it, weâre not of it.â ~Andrea Barrett I find comfort in that quote. I am comforted by the very presence of all others in the same boat, even if the boat is leaky, there's a hurricane a-comin, and we're ...[Read Full Post] Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:30:28 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1054395 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1054395 I realized today I spend a disproportionate amount of time wondering if people are mad at me, and because I was in a mood of self-inquiry, I turned to Google and found this from Vogue...an article called Is Everyone Mad at Me? by Michelle Ruiz From the article: When I get that pang of, Holy shit, is [insert person] mad at me? and start to retread everything I have said or done that might be misconstruedâor notâI try to remind myse...[Read Full Post] Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:04:27 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1054370 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1054370 As soon as it became apparent that I was going to be actually living here at my mom's, I moved my 2 cats, Gracie and Laura, over here to her house. Luckily my mom has always loved and owned cats, so that part wasn't a problem. The cats are sisters and look a lot alike. I can tell at a glance which is which (Gracie is bigger and has smoother, prettier fur, whereas Laura is scrawny and scrappier - she was likely the runt), but my mother couldn't tell ...[Read Full Post] Sun, 20 Aug 2023 15:40:52 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1054369 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1054369 When I moved in with my mother on December 28, 2022, I did not know that I was moving in with her. I thought I was postponing my day's activities and work in order to check on her when she didn't answer the phone, because she lives alone and I was worried. And then when I found her on the floor of the upstairs bathroom, I thought I was cleaning her, feeling along her bones for breaks, dressing her in a clean nightgown, fixing her dinner, and getting ...[Read Full Post] Sun, 20 Aug 2023 15:02:12 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1054368 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1054368 Hello and welcome to the jungle. "You know where you are? You're in the jungle baby. You're gonna DIE!" -Guns & Roses I am a Gen X woman living with my 80 year old mother and taking care of her, and I am here to bitch and complain about that, and plenty of other things too. It won't be a boring blog, I promise you that. I'm starting to write here as a branch of The Never Normal, my blog at winklett.com, which I started in 2010 to jou...[Read Full Post] Sun, 20 Aug 2023 15:01:32 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1054367 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1054367