I wanna love You better whatever it takes . . . » short and sweet

It’s really not funny – oh look, a squirrel!

laterain — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:14:59 +0000

“Ha ha, I feel so ADD today.”

I hear this type of comment quite often. It’s become a metaphor for our entire culture. The title of my post alludes to one of many t-shirts that poke fun at the condition.

But I am here to tell you that if you really HAD ADHD, you would not find it to be a laughing matter. If you really suffered from this disorder, you would be too busy trying to hold your life together, or drowning in a sea of self-hatred because your 140 IQ was completely useless in helping you to achieve any level of success in life. If you really lived with ADHD, you would know that all the joking in the world would be no match for the chaos that was driving your life on a daily basis.

So next time you are tempted to make a joke about how you are having an “ADD type of day”, try to remember that for some of us, this is what we are dealing with every. single. day. Think about the pain your words may cause, however unintentional. Those of us who live with this scourge will appreciate it.

tags vs categories vs “OCD, much?!”

laterain — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:53:17 +0000

When I started blogging on WordPress, they offered “categories”, but not tags for posts. When tags came along, I started using them, but also used the categories in some cases. This led to lots of messy overlap.

Anyway, tonight my OCD self is tempted to go through all of the posts by category, tag away, and then delete the categories.

or perhaps I can look into getting a life. yeah, that might work.

I’m blogging on the inside . . .

laterain — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:57:41 +0000

really, I am . . . I am constantly blogging inside my head . . . in traffic, in the shower, as I go about my day, while I’m watching Little House on the Prairie (not kidding about that last one!) . . .

but somehow, these entries don’t make it to the screen, or they are doomed to live out their days as a draft, waiting to be perfected before I hit “publish”.

Blogging was supposed to help me with my chronic lack of discipline when it comes to writing, and it worked for a while, but then . . . I don’t know. Life happened. I’ve been wrestling with sickness both in my body and my soul. The words are there, but they refuse to break forth . . .

but I need to do something about this. because can I really call myself a writer if I never write?

so much to say . . .

laterain — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:36:42 +0000

I have at least five topics left over from my long weekend back “home” in NY, so it’s going to be busy! At least I hope it will be. My ability to discipline myself being what it is, I’m hoping to get to it all. But I’ve been blogging in my head all weekend, so it seems only fair that I get it onto paper.

And I have made a decision . . . I was going to take a poll about it, but I think I’ve decided. I’m going to move all of my “Du$$ar” stuff to a different blog. I just want to see what my traffic REALLY looks like, independent of any conversation about that whole mess. So I’m getting rid of it . . . I’ve decided.

Stay tuned!

I am such a total dork

laterain — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:37:06 +0000

my hero came to town, and I totally missed it.

The Queen of Too Much Information strikes again

laterain — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:40:26 +0000

I just uploaded seven pictures of mi lumpito to my flickr page.

now THAT is more than you ever wanted to know about me! ;-p

1987 called . . .

laterain — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:42:56 +0000

They want their jeans back.

this man is not my friend.

laterain — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:28:44 +0000

Actually, I hope that he ends up being just a particularly annoying person at a party where I’m not going to stay long, but right now, he is REALLY not my friend.

Mental health parity–let your voice be heard

laterain — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:13:48 +0000

I know that I don’t talk about this issue as much as I talk about all of the other things I like to rant and rave about, but this is something that really is so important to me . . . maybe someday I’ll blog my own personal story of what happens when you don’t have mental health coverage, but for today, please just go here and send an e-mail to your state representative.

thanks.

To those who say that Jena isn’t about race

laterain — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:49:57 +0000

I was struck by how these wise words from W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk are still so applicable today: (emphasis added)

It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War; and however much they who marched South and North in 1861 may have fixed on the technical points, of union and local autonomy as a shibboleth, all nevertheless knew, as we know, that the question of Negro slavery was the real cause of the conflict. Curious it was, too, how this deeper question ever forced itself to the surface despite effort and disclaimer. No sooner had Northern armies touched Southern soil than this old question, newly guised, sprang from the earth,–What shall be done with Negroes?