My first apartment on the Lewis Street side of the property after fleeing the nest (like both my sisters, when Dad threatened to start charging rent 😏), from June 1996 shortly after graduating from Vanguard until June of 1998 when I transferred to a one-bedroom on The City side of the same property in anticipation of getting married. It was $554 a month for 450 sq ft. It now *STARTS* at...

Ten years since our "Happily Ever After" was taken away.

We had just sent in the last payment on your car and we were supposed to go to Outback later that night to celebrate.

Instead, the sheriff's deputy and I were in the apartment, going through the medication lockbox that I insisted on having installed due to then-recent events, counting all the patches, pills, and bottles, as paramedics...

Two of my posts that were federated to Mastodon (this one and this one) were removed by the powers-that-be over Mastodon (so much for it being 'decentralized'; there's clearly a dictatorship over the service) because apparently quoting and interpreting the Bible violates their "No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, or casteism" policy.

And I haven't even started to...