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Mental Health Monday I have emotional exhaustion

| March 22, 2022

I want to tell my family especially Caroline that I am OK just tired. None of this is anyone’s fault. It is circumstances and the situation I find myself in. I promised myself I would be honest here. “Emotional exhaustion is a state of feeling emotionally worn-out and drained because of accumulatedstress from your personal or […]

Adjusting to the new normal(s)

| March 18, 2022

We hear there is another COVID variant floating around. It is very transmissible but not very strong if you are vaccinated. We just got our faces back; however, I think we are all waiting for the shoe to drop and we find ourselves back to March 2020. It has been two years and we have […]

RTBTCKI   Addicted to…

| March 7, 2022

I am putting a warning on this one for those who don’t want to read my thoughts on addiction and how that word has been twisted all kinds of ways.

Happy 85th Birthday to Dr. Helen S. O’Shea, My Mother

| March 5, 2022

Happy 85th Birthday to Helen S. O’Shea, My Mother Today is my mother’s birthday. I can honestly say I wouldn’t be here without her. She is a very accomplished woman who has done many amazing things in her life. She is a shining example of the American Dream when it works right. Not that she didn’t […]

RTBTCKI 24 Years Ago

| March 4, 2022

Twenty-four years ago I moved up to New York to be closer to my boyfriend Peter David. May Twenty-sixth will be our twenty-first wedding anniversary, This is the longest I have been living in the same house. There has been a lot of change and up-ending of new norms here as Peter moves onto dialysis.  […]