I’m popular with the kids. But it also sparks the conversations of 1. Do you give toys to charity 2. What was your favorite childhood toy. 3. Have you purchased a similar toy to your favorite to give away?

Read More Just Some of the toys on My Desk

A.K.A. another day in the life. 80% of social work is paperwork. "Flex your fingers and prepare to sign your name like a rock-star!" But all the forms you sign get processed by me and then filed. (The alphabet and I are arch enemies , just f.y.i. ) Every day I bleed for my art […]

Read More Stabbed by a Manilla Folder in the Line of duty

Paranoid frustration is being on hold while calling the Los Angeles P.E.T. team. (Psychiatric Emergency Team). I have multiple people calling every number I know and all numbers gutter into the same phone bank and we are all on hold. This is *after* selecting 1 for English and navigating call option choices. If you ever […]

Read More Suicide Hot line … on HOLD!

My friend Bonnie likes to reference the Eye Poke. I am surprised I have eyes left for all the times I have tried to carefully consider all circumstances and personality traits of my clients (and sometimes friends) and make a plan for success that honors the obsticles in our way. Sometimes it works. Once I […]

Read More Poking Myself in the Eye