My inside, safe-bet guess is the Exec branch leaks like a soaker hose.

Any time. Ima gonna follow you to make that easy. There’s a lot of little quirks and tricks for poking about in a personal history and getting people to examine their own context, but documents of any sort are the most useful because they’re contemporaneous.

When you interview therapists, look for “trauma informed”, cluster B informed, and talk about their ability to contextualize. And set out a boundary from go: No, I will not be reconciling with X person. That’s off the table. Any therapist who cannot manage to abide by a hard boundary is someone who shouldn’t be…

So... Adult child of two Cluster B here. And a shrink.

Younger sibs, too. I didn’t touch my whiny brats’ crap that they left everywhere, but they were homicidal (dollicidal?) when it came to Bun and Grace.

Bun, a stuffed bunny I fell in love with hard at about age 2, just before we got transferred to London. He was white (is now greyish) with pale pink satin inner ears and bright blue eyes (both present) and was probably an Easter toy. I remember finding him at a Kmart and being enchanted. I remember having a screaming…

Boulder County, Colorado. Seriously, this is WEIRD for us. We usually get a last week of April or first week of May snowstorm that’s wet and heavy and lots and gone in 24 hours and isn’t hard enough to damage the apples, but this one started with hail and thunder, lasted almost 72 hours and was two weeks later than…

And... ya know, even our beloved RBG enjoyed spending time with Antonin Scalia. And mourned his passing. People contain multitudes.

I usually plant my garden on Mother’s Day, because that’s usually safe from frost here. This year, I had to push it back and was mostly thinking about skipping. Good thing. We got the mother of all spring snow storms this week. So I will plant this week instead.

YES. I was glad we got Robbie back, and I hope we get more of him. Also Trip. Still have mixed feelings on Ward, that oppositional defiant PITA.

Hooray on low contact! Good for you!

If you’ve never read the O Henry short story, “The Ransom of Red Chief”... that’s mine, mostly, except the ending. Because the United States has a policy of NEVER, EVER paying. Ever. Under any circumstances.

Made over concert and geeky tee shirts this week. I’ve been collecting them for about three years. I don’t like men’s fit at all, but I prefer beefy jersey (men’s tees) to the thin, delicate, often rayon-blend that’s used for women’s tees, and I want length. Thus, I buy the largest tee available at the merch booth…

Maybe the parts east of Aurora? Culturally, the Plains are a lot more like Kansas, which is a lot more like Iowa and Minnesota than they are like Utah/Nevada/California. And Denver Metro to the western state line is much more like Utah/Nevada/CA than it is like Kansas.

Per a (likely fake) WH staffer Twitter account, cases of frozen pizza were loaded onto AF1. Either he’s planning to piss off the press corps back in steerage, or this is all about the toddler, or both. (Edit: subject-verb agreement.)

She would be on FIRE now. I miss her, too.

I swear that man is in love with the taste of his own feet.

I like Edward Ferrars much better than Darcy. I wouldn’t so much call him weak as trapped. If you look at Edward through the lens of the adult, scapegoat child of a narcissist, with a pair of golden children siblings, he becomes a lot clearer. He followed the social and his mother’s rules because he didn’t know he had…

New doctor time. Try for a woman doc, if possible. There’s actual statistical evidence that male geriatrics docs have worse patient outcomes and provide less functional care, mostly because listening is a skill that atrophies. Home care docs are becoming a thing again; check in your area for one. It’s in the doc and…

Boneless and muddy!