A Perfectly Single Mom

Accepting it, owning it, and moving forward!!

Why I am Single…

This one's heart; that one's eyes; his intelligence; that other one's atheletic ability; oh, and of course that one's...

Have you ever been out on a date that is going relatively well, then all of a sudden from way out in left field, you get sucker-punched and can’t breathe? Yeah… I was on a date the other night. It was Sunday night, and it was just for drinks.  I don’t know Roofie (as in [...]

A Small Dose of Happiness

MJ and me

This wasn’t going to be a real post, but it slowly morphed into one. Yesterday, Mother’s Day, I woke up and was instantly in tears. I was staying at my sister’s house and her son, my godson, woke me up to help him make his mom breakfast in bed. I felt the Depression Monster telling [...]

tête-à-tête

Have you ever met someone that makes you feel all tingly inside? Just from TALKING to him?? I have! Yogurt Guy (YG, from this point forward) and I talk for HOURS upon hours about anything and everything under the sun! I met YG a couple of months ago at the neighborhood bar. We were both [...]

My Very First Troll…

Troll - the cute kind, not the stalker kind

When I started this blog, it was to help me deal with the demons in my own life; mostly those that live in my head. Apparently, my brain is a dark and scary place and the nastiest of mean and degrading thoughts live there. Here is my place to release them into the wild. This [...]

I’m Still Clawing my way Out of the Darkness

Hi. My name is Rachel and I am the face of Mental Illness. I have been diagnosed with dysthymia (long term depression) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. *waves For many, many years, I avoided the possibility of actually having a real diagnosis, so I just self-medicated – that went amazingly well. *snort Luckily, I decided to [...]

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