Tag: Parenting
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5.1.24 (Lightning Hornet Series)
There has been something I’ve not handled well for a while now. It needs addressing. My wife is at a point in her life where she is perimenopausal. My son is in the throes of puberty, seventh grade hell. And I feel I cannot make either of them happy. There are days, there are times, where I feel nothing I do is right, nothing I do can help, there are days…
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4.19.24 (Lightning Hornet Series)
It’s been too long. A number of emotion-sparking events have happened, and I did not process them. I reverted to repressing them. Old habits die hard; I guess. But now things have reached a boiling point. If I don’t bleed it out onto the page, I will self-destruct. I don’t think I will like what comes out. I feel shame and guilt for feeling the way I do about this last week’s sequence of…
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2.16.24 (Lightning Hornet Series)
My son is growing up and growing older. He is becoming more independent. He heads out now, hanging with his friends, riding scooters around neighborhoods. Crossing busy streets, going to Starbucks and the grocery store. All fantastic things. All wonderful parts of growing up. Being social; having positive interpersonal interactions, having friends, growing in his independence. But my damn, stupid head. I sit here, journaling, trying…