Tree Number Four
For much of my life, my alarm system for unwise conduct in my relationships, jobs, or being anywhere doing anything, especially in stores shopping, could be overridden by the smallest impulse. But after many years of therapy and medication I’ve learned that this behavior is symptomatic of my ADHD and Bipolar II disorder. But I blame Christmas Trees.
A Thanksgiving Time Warp
Everybody’s happy, and I’m trying to be as well. But even though I’m in the kitchen cooking, which is what I want and love to do on Thanksgiving, I’m not. My happiness is caught up in fried brain wiring and escalating confusion. I’m holding a full hot pot and there are laughing obstructions between me, and the sink and I yell. “Kids! Get away from the goddamn pies! I told you already!”