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I used to belong to a writer’s group ’til I joined a therapy group that caused a scheduling conflict (close call as to which is the better therapy, but the therapy group won out). We did great exercises at the … Continue reading →

I am having a bad week, and it is getting worse. By “worse,” I mean a persistent pit in my stomach, dark thoughts of doom, a deep and abiding desire to consume an entire chocolate cake (the one at Whole … Continue reading →

What are the things that we still don’t talk about AT ALL? I have thought of a few. Care to add? 1. Severe mental illness, like schizophrenia. We have cracked the door on depression, anxiety and bipolar, those have become … Continue reading →

You have not lived until you have been to a cat café.  I visited one in Seoul in February 2013, on a trip to Korea to visit my daughter, who was teaching English there.  While the concept originated in Taiwan … Continue reading →

One stumbling block for me all along with my divorce was jealousy of my ex-husband, that he “got” my two disaffected children in the divorce instead of me, as if they were a lamp or a sofa.  This time, it … Continue reading →

Suzy Creamcheese became Suzy Marmalade because I couldn’t get the rights to  use the Creamcheese name from the Frank Zappa Estate. I was crazy about the name, dickered around with Gail Zappa’s lawyers for months and months, but to no … Continue reading →

I recently saw The Who in concert, provoking the titular question. Specifically, who is Suzy Marmalade? That’s the question that many people reading Southern Vapors have on their minds. She is described in the book as one of my personas. … Continue reading →

In the US, someone dies by suicide every 13.7 minutes. In the time it takes to write this post, an average of 4 people will have taken their lives. When I say that I had thought of killing myself before … Continue reading →