I am still here. I wake up every day. And that's as good as it gets for now.
Highly Recommended
Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi: The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
Reading this book explained a whole lot of things about why so many families I know are struggling financially, even though we don't spend extravagantly. Simultaneously enlightening and nauseating.Elizabeth Warren: All Your Worth : The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan
If other personal finance books have frustrated you because they assume you have money to invest and you don't even have enough money to buy a large coffee, this is the personal finance book for you. Reading this book showed me that it's not that I waste money on stupid things--it's that our basic expenses are too high to begin with. Reading this book is the end of financial guilt and the beginning of getting out of the hole.Adele Faber: Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
Lots of great ideas to think about and put into practice about not assigning your kids roles and how to approach fights. Also goes over some of the stuff from the How to Talk So Kids Will Listen book about making kids feel understood. Because, really, that's all anyone wants--to be understood. And kids are people, too.Anne Lamott: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Just perfect. A beautiful, funny, sad, accurate account of what the first days, weeks, and months with a baby are like. This is exactly what your journal would be, if you could write as well as she does.Adrian Nicole LeBlanc: Random Family : Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
LeBlanc's writing and pacing makes you want to keep reading despite the tragic story. Think you have an informed opinion about welfare reform and how to strengthen families in this country? Not until you've read this book.John Taylor Gatto: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
This is the red pill. Don't read it if you want to stay comfortable with the American school system. Gatto goes into why government-owned schools were created and the things they actually teach us.Ellis Avery: The Smoke Week: September 11-21, 2001
If you have any curiosity about what it was like for New Yorkers during the World Trade Center attacks, this is the book to read. A brilliant, crystalline, spot-on memoir of the week or so after the attacks, this book is an ode to New Yorkers. Realistic, clean, and completely un-maudlin, it's just the story of what it was like for us. This is what should go into a time capsule to represent September 2001.
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I'm with you, sister. I figure every day I get dressed before 2:00 is a victory.
Posted by: Anna | May 07, 2009 at 01:13 PM
Sounds like you could use more chocolate. I hope things get really fantastic for you.
Posted by: caramama | May 07, 2009 at 02:31 PM
I know it's hard. And I know you know it will get better. But for now, waking up is enough.
Posted by: Jill | May 07, 2009 at 05:00 PM
Hang in there. We are sending you all the virtual support you send us on a daily basis.
Posted by: Amy | May 07, 2009 at 05:09 PM
Been thinking of you and wondering how you're doing. One foot in front of the other gets you *someplace*. Keep moving and day by day things will feel better.
Posted by: Colleen Pence | May 07, 2009 at 05:26 PM
You did it when you were sixteen, you can do it now.
Posted by: Slim | May 07, 2009 at 11:11 PM
I'm really sorry you're dealing with this. Fish in the sea door closes window opens yadda yadda whatever yes you can punch me now. (I thought having someone to give a good virtual pummeling to might be more helpful than anything else at this stage).
Posted by: AmyinMotown | May 08, 2009 at 09:36 AM
:( Really sorry life feels so bleak right now. Thanks for checking in.
Posted by: andrea | May 11, 2009 at 09:49 AM
sadly, I know that state all to well. "the only way out is through". am sorry and am thinking of you. (shyly raising hand) might it be a good time for another "Ask Moxie 60-day challenge"? I know you've got a lot of projects on your plate over there, but have been thinking of doing one myself (was a bit too passive a participant in the last one!), and perhaps there are others that could also use that nudge to "pull themself up out of (whatever it is holding us down)". this time, we could try to help YOU through this dark patch as you've done so so many of us. hope some peace & lightness heads your way soon.
Posted by: kim | May 12, 2009 at 10:10 PM