Dear Kaiser Permanente: Late last week, I received an email from the Kaiser speech pathologist I was referred to for my son. She was writing to inform me that Kaiser had made the decision not to cover Alex’s speech therapy because it was “not medically necessary.” She said she had noticed more referrals being denied…

The world was singing to him well before any sort of language faculties would’ve begun to develop.

I don’t like birds. I find them excessively gross. The feathers, the strange reptile feet. Abominations, all of them.

I accomplished exactly one of these goals. Got the MFA. Kind of went the other way on the rest of it.

One question I’ve been getting a lot lately from new doctors and nurse practitioners and nurses who do the pre-interviews for the former two is, why did I start taking antidepressants in the first place?

What if the calendar flips over and suddenly it’s January and *gah!* I still don’t have my life figured out.