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I’m not going to lie, things have been heavy around here for the past few weeks. Death, hospitalization, coming out, state testing, travel for mom and other serious stresses. So when I picked u...

http://queenofspainblog.com/2017/05/18/in-defense-of-silly-the-unstoppable-princess-boy/

I feel the anger. I feel the frustration. I also feel the wheels of history and democracy turning. I’ll be watching the inauguration. I’m not going to boycott because my gal lost. I’m not g...

http://queenofspainblog.com/2017/01/17/ill-be-watching-the-inauguration/

I need to write. Every day it gets easier. Every day it gets harder. I’m slogging through the days, some seem normal, others seem like a surreal half-life. Grief is like a fog. It clouds you. I...

http://queenofspainblog.com/2016/10/23/grief/

Those are the words of a small child, a Latino Kindergartner in Tennessee to be exact, who his teacher says was “told by classmates that he will be deported and trapped behind a wall” —and ...

http://queenofspainblog.com/2016/08/15/is-the-wall-here-yet/

Denial, anger, … acceptance? Or is there one between there? Meh. I’m somewhere between denial and anger as my CDiff has returned despite the over 90% success rate of the transplant I underwen...

http://queenofspainblog.com/2015/07/23/all-i-want-is-a-garden/

I really think you need to suck it up and realize what was normal for US as kids is not normal for OUR kids. Sure, get fresh air, get exercise, go play outside…but let’s face it, when it come...

http://queenofspainblog.com/2015/03/16/the-digital-kids-are-alright/

Three hospital stays since returning from Hawaii. Not entirely how I envisioned the past 6 weeks. I’m coping. I’m trying hard not to fall into that dark place and I’m taking solace in words...

http://queenofspainblog.com/2015/01/24/so-yeah-that/

I was going to write a post about being entirely disgusted to find myself cited by the infamous Ann Coulter in her 2009 book Guilty: the blah blah I hate liberals they are ruining the world book ...

http://queenofspainblog.com/2014/12/04/black-lives-matter/

I don’t want to talk about Michael Brown. I don’t want to talk about Trayvon Martin. I don’t want to talk about Tamir Rice. I don’t want to talk about Jordan Davis. I don’t want to talk...

http://queenofspainblog.com/2014/11/26/i-believe/

I’m not going to lie, this family, sometimes, has (!gasp!) fast food for dinner. We allow our children to have pop (you crazy people call it soda) while at a theme park and occasionally at home...

http://queenofspainblog.com/2014/11/12/no-fight-at-my-fridge/