Yes, this is my life

I don't know what the professionals call it or if it's even really been discusses but there is a period of time when a person dies in which I refer to as the "novelty period". Most people are well meaning, some people just like to be involved in whatever is popular. There is a certain self gratification people get by consoling the bereaved. It's hard to explain this strange behavior. People come out of the woodworks. It's positive and helpful at first. You really do need support after losing a loved one. But then after a while it just stops. Maybe they think you've "gotten over it". Maybe someone else has died and they've moved on. I don't really know but I distinctly remember the deafening silence that came then. It felt like an oxygen pump was shut off. It sort of takes the wind out of you.  I have helped many families since my own loss and learned it wasn't just something that happened to me. It seemed very common. So much so tha

I don't know what the professionals call it or if it's even really been discusses but there is a period of time when a person dies in which I refer to as the "novelty period". Most people are well meaning, some people just like to be involved in whatever is popular. There is a certain self gratification people get by consoling the bereaved. It's hard to explain this strange behavior. People come out of the woodworks. It's positive and helpful at first. You really do need support after losing a loved one. But then after a while it just stops. Maybe they think you've "gotten over it". Maybe someone else has died and they've moved on. I don't really know but I distinctly remember the deafening silence that came then. It felt like an oxygen pump was shut off. It sort of takes the wind out of you.  I have helped many families since my own loss and learned it wasn't just something that happened to me. It seemed very common. So much so tha

I generally am just entertained by the random nonsense the flows from Sarah Palin's mouth hole. I've told my friends that if Maya Angelou and Dr. Seuss were first cousins and grew up in the same trailer park, Sarah would be their inbred love child. I am convinced her most recent speech was sponsored by Wild Turkey. I typically cant help but not take her incoherent rambling seriously as I cant really decipher what it is shes actually saying. I mean...I hear the words but cant make out her point. Its odd and tragically hilarious. I read somewhere her dad was a retired teacher? Did he teach wood shop? She has no grasp of punctuation AT ALL ! It's fun. However.... Hours before she spoke publicly endorsing  Trump her son was arrested for domestic assault, public intoxication and brandishing an AR-15 threatening suicide. ...but wait there's more! Sarah Palin blamed her son's shitty behavior on Obama, PTSD and war service. This actually infuriates me. Sarah, your s