The Shadow Hunter

I have a confession to make.  Ready? For my entire life, I have been singularly terrified, TER.IF.IED. of needles. Not just a little scared...but like, would-rather-attempt-surgery-on-myself-than-let-a-doctor-or-nurse-touch-me sort of fear.  Right? Not great.  Why? I honestly don't know.  I've been told that from birth, I had deep mistrust of doctors, and now I think this actually may have been carried over from a past-life I had... ...let me know if you want to hear THAT story...  -- but I digress. This fear of needles has kept me from something I really, really wanted, ever since childhood. Pierced. Ears.  I know, I know. I did not have my ears pierced. At all.  Not even a single lobe.  Now I know, some of you reading this will laugh, and that's ok!  The reason why I share these stories vulnerably is to show you that vulnerability is what connects us.  We all have something we're afraid of! But I'm truly fine with admitting that yes, y...

Have you ever had one of those days where EVERYTHING seems to go wrong? Oh yes. You know which ones I'm talking about.  The days where you stub your toe getting out of bed. You burn the roof of your mouth on your coffee. Oof.  Your work inbox is overflowing with meeting invites and you are double/triple /quadruple booked.  The dog will not stop barking at a human outside/the wall/anything that moves and is currently doing zoomies around the living room...(this...is a pretty normal occurrence though... haha).  The wi-fi has slowed to a snail's pace. And stopped.  Joy. AND the city of Milwaukee has conveniently decided to work on the city's water mainline at approximately 8am so your shower water (and associated water pressure) is equivalent to a sad trickle.  And even the toilets won't work.  Womp womp. (True. Story.) You feel like you just want to crawl back into bed and forget the day ever existed, right? But this, this is the golden opportunity ...