Spice Rack

Let’s talk about special needs kids and friends. My son went to a birthday party a few years ago, for a *basic* friend of his. Max does not get invited to many parties (see: special needs kid), so we go to evvrrryyy party. This party was at an awesome (to an 8 year old) place…

You’re Invited to a Pity Party! Come dressed in your catastrophizing best! Hard hats required! All right. I’ve been looking for a job for 2 months and 10 days and I cannot find a job. I am despairing of ever finding a job. I feel like I have applied to 8 million jobs and I…

In spite of having the World’s Most Suspicious Mother, Miss Management is a trusting individual. Some might say gullible. Some might even say that gullible is written on the ceiling. Miss Management might check and see. In spite of being depressed for the better part of 25 years, Miss Management is an optimist and has…

It’s impossible to be Autism Mom and not read up on autism. And then not beat yourself of up for not spending every waking moment consumed by autism and treatments for autism and diets for autism and medications for autism. Lazy autism mom. But you can’t hang out with Autism and not know about Temple…

Denial In hindsight, I should have seen it coming. Smarter parents would have dumped them first. But they had been so good to Max. They had given him every service he needed, without me having to fight them, or even ask. They even gave him services I didn’t think he needed, like music therapy.  A…

In which Miss Management shares hard lessons from middle management, in the hopes that you won’t repeat her mistakes. MIss Management is frequently disraught over issues large and small, at home and at work. This means she is frequently tearful in public at inopportune times, including the workplace. This is not typically considered management material,…

This week I participated in one of those boomer Facebook surveys that’s like a Fortune Teller Word Search: “The First Four Words You See Are Your Words for 2025.” So I looked casually…if I was searching with true intent I would go line by line but with this I just kind of side-eyed it and…

I’ve been violated by Cologuard I’m watching TV and I am all about that damn talking box, ok? What I am NOT about, is people singing about turning 45 and pooping in a box to the tune of Frank Sinatra’s My Way. The talking box comes for us all. I’m grateful frankly that I even…

I can’t bring my whole self to work. It’s really bothering me. Like, chafing. I hate myself, ok, but not all the time and I like to bring the parts that I enjoy to work with me. It’s terrible when even those parts aren’t allowed at work because they’re not “professional” or because people are…