It Doesn't Slow Down
May is happening right now. (I'm re-reading that sentence again and hoping it will sink in). Maybe it's the bipolar weather around here, with all its winter withdrawal/flashback blizzards that launched directly into the thunderstormy 80s. Maybe it's just life and schedules piling up per the usual and I'm just unprepared per the usual. Whatever it is, once again May has completely snuck up on us. And with it, all the additional crazy. Seriously. How is it that everything must happen in May? It's like open season for the crazy right now. My calendar looks like a whole pack of colored sharpies self-destructed at close range. And all the other non-delineated-on-the-calendar needs--mine, my people's, everyone else's--make me feel like I need a tenth hand to balance them all. And my brain. My brain in this season feels like it's just stuck in a never ending daze of "whaaaa...?" (Apologies if you've been on the receiving end of