Character matters to me. It's what I value most about myself because it's a currency I control, and I have strong feelings about human decency. We learn about what character means and what contributes to it as early as kindergarten. As we get older, we continue to...
Visiting Pearl Harbour the week before the 2024 US Election felt right—it was a time to honour the past and, in some respects, bid adieu to certain rights and freedoms... Being at Pearl Harbor was unlike any other historical site I had visited. It wasn’t simply about...
If I polled a random sampling of people asking them to describe 2020 in one word, I think the clear winner would be sadness. A year filled with heartache and loss felt by each of us around the world - we endured heartache and crippling sadness as a global...
Writing is therapeutic for me, which means I write when I'm sad. I also write when I'm happy or feeling like I'm making progress in some area of my life that has been lacking, but I mostly write when I'm sad. Today I am sad. Very sad. My stepdad passed away yesterday...
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Uniquely odd is the way I have described myself for years. Why? Well, have you met me?
I have mental illness: depression, anxiety and OCD. All officially diagnosed and being treated for – somedays are better than others. For a long time I felt alone in my struggle. But then I discovered a gift, a soulmate, aa person that I resemble but have never met – and I really hope she doesn’t mind me talking about her here because I’m going to.
I’d like to introduce you to Jenny Lawson, The Bloggers.
I happen to think she is amazingly smart, resilient, funny and probably THE most honest person I have never met. I say I resemble her but really I don’t, her wit is much more intellectual than mine and she will literally have you peeing in your pants. Ok, maybe that’s just me. But that doesn’t take away from the hilarity and honest approach she takes when sharing her story about living with depression. It is her story that I relate to.
I began my blog because of Jenny Lawson. Her honest and extremely funny take on living with mental illness, specially depression & anxiety, has brought huge smiles to my life and made me feel that my ‘uniquely odd’ self is a great person to be – the only person that feels like me and the only person I want to be. Knowing there are others out there that feel the same way and talk about it so candidly has been therapeutic. Soothing. Helpful.
If you haven’t read her books or even checked out her blog, for goodness sake, go now!
Smart, funny, clever, and so wonderfully honest. Refreshing.
This bizarre, weird (in a great way!), uniquely honest lady has vividly captured many moments of my life and she doesn’t even know it. I thank Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggers, for sharing her world so folks like me can can keep chugging away at being uniquely odd.
And in the words of The Bloggess: Be bizarre. Be weird. Be proud of the uniquely beautiful way that you are broken. Be furiously happy. *
(Previous posted in May 2016 and Jenny ACTUALLY COMMENTED!!!!!)
Character matters to me. It's what I value most about myself because it's a currency I control, and I have strong feelings about human decency. We learn about what character means and what contributes to it as early as kindergarten. As we get older, we continue to...
Visiting Pearl Harbour the week before the 2024 US Election felt right—it was a time to honour the past and, in some respects, bid adieu to certain rights and freedoms... Being at Pearl Harbor was unlike any other historical site I had visited. It wasn’t simply about...
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Oh… I will check her out. I think it must be a huge compliment to her to find someone that appreciated her work. Your site is lovely. I will be following on bloglovin’
Thank you Yvette!