My big kid struggles. For those of you who haven't heard or don't know or whatever, the sequence of events was... something's up with my kid. Maybe it's sensory processing disorder? Nope, ADHD. W...
http://countmockula.blogspot.com/2021/01/big-kid-update.html
And to 2020? Don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you. I know dates like this are kind of arbitrary, and yet I always have thought of the new year as a time to reflect a little...
http://countmockula.blogspot.com/2021/01/happy-new-year.html
A friend asked on Facebook what was the most fun you'd had during stay-at-home orders. I had a hard time thinking of one REALLY fun thing, but I thought of lots of little nice things. I've mad...
http://countmockula.blogspot.com/2020/12/seeing-silver-linings.html
So, I've been wanting to art lately. What kind of art? Eh, I dunno. I want to sing, but when? Where? Not in a choir or with a band, surely-in-these-times. Not in my house where I'm self-consci...
Lochlan asked me how you remember your dreams, and what dreams of mine I remember. I don't remember my dreams often -- usually I have a hazy impression right as I wake, and then it's gone. B...
A few years ago, I wrote a list of my favorite Christmas songs, and why I loved the ones I did. A few days ago, Sweetie almost pissed herself, thinking we were going to get into a car accident...
Well, I haven't really talked about distance learning. It's... different. I'm doing my best, and I'm putting a lot of time and effort into it, and we're doing okay, my students and I. I alw...
As I hoped, getting in the habit of regular writing makes me remember that I have things to say! So... I like food. I like preparing and cooking food, I like feeding people, I like eating, I l...
http://countmockula.blogspot.com/2020/12/growing-and-foraging-and-complaininess.html
My other grandmother, the one we nicknamed "Granny Boone" for the distant town she moved to before my kids were born, I don't talk about nearly as much as Vida. I actually spent more time wi...
http://countmockula.blogspot.com/2020/12/writing-my-grandmothers-junk.html
I don't know if I've mentioned this, but despite being a pink-haired punk-rocker who listened to Depeche Mode (and being friends with the weirdos of the drama club), I was pretty square, and so...
http://countmockula.blogspot.com/2020/12/tony-part-2-i-have-no-interest-in.html
I have a lot of ideas for the writing that I *could* or *would* do. Sometimes I think about writing my own autobiography in the form of little essays about the people who changed me. Sometime...
http://countmockula.blogspot.com/2020/12/four-you-know-theyre-not-on-consecutive.html
I'm struggling to find inspiration to write today. My 12 year old has some pretty serious mental health issues. I suspect that in a previous generation, they'd have been institutionalized. T...
Hey, remember two days ago when I was like, "I'm going to write something every day?" Good times, right? In thinking about my grandparents' bathroom, I got to thinking about the rest of their ...
http://countmockula.blogspot.com/2020/12/writing-day-3-or-whatever.html
Hello. I hardly ever write here anymore, because I hardly ever write anywhere anymore. I am trying to make distance learning go well, and it takes a lot of time, so I watch a lot of cooking sho...
http://countmockula.blogspot.com/2020/12/writing-day-1-frog.html
I don't write on this blog much anymore, but between the approaching twin milestones (starting Kindergarten and turning six a day apart) and the absolute charm this kid shows as they learn and gr...
http://countmockula.blogspot.com/2020/08/lochlan-is-turning-6.html
Hello! Sorry I've been away for so long. What a weird time! My school district made attendance Friday voluntary a little over a week ago, and communication was kind of terrible, and then they cl...
http://countmockula.blogspot.com/2020/03/quarantine-time.html
Well, I'm on vacation, which is the main reason for the post -- I feel relaxed enough to sit down and write without thinking about how I need to fold laundry instead. But it's a good time to re...
http://countmockula.blogspot.com/2019/12/new-year-coming.html
I am thankful, as always, for life, health, shelter, food, and all the things we can take for granted but many people can't. I'm thankful for my wife's transition and that she's here with us tod...
http://countmockula.blogspot.com/2019/11/happy-thanksgiving.html
My uncle died today. It was a surprise, not only because I didn't know he'd been having health problems -- Grandma was always my news source -- but also because he was my youngest uncle, the ba...
Okay, I have to be upfront and say that as Az gets older, I feel like there's so much I still want to share about her and her journey, but also that she needs and deserves privacy. I'm not sure...
I should probably proofread and edit, but it's bedtime. I took the kids camping this week. I always intend to do a couple day trips nearby, but unless we do a big week-long thing with family a ...
I'm in Lake Tahoe at a training for a class I'll be teaching for the first time in August. I have to say... I really didn't know a lot about the class. I mean, I had read the stuff in my own sub...
http://countmockula.blogspot.com/2019/06/theory-of-knowledge.html
Hello! I could probably talk about a lot of things right now. There's a lot on my mind, especially politically and culturally. But I want to pop in with some body talk again. I've lost 40 pound...
So my darling 11 year old is moody and crabby and isolates herself in her room a lot. Never sure where the pre-teen boundary meets the autism boundary. She can be a real challenge sometimes, and ...
http://countmockula.blogspot.com/2019/04/all-kinds-of-stuff-like-pre-teens-body.html
This child is creative, funny, temperamental, difficult, smart, curious, daring, athletic, selfish, powerful, proud, passionate, mercurial, anxious, confident, and growing, changing and maturing...
http://countmockula.blogspot.com/2019/03/33-pictures-of-my-sweetheart-as-she.html