"The ceiling moving was the first thing that had ever matched how I felt on the inside."
The Spins is up now. Rain Soaked Silk drops Friday.
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If you’ve ever struggled with healthcare bureaucracy i wonder if you would read this little story that happened to me and take the reader poll at end? #substack #womenshealth #writingcommunity
I've always felt like the passenger.
Carried along by other people's expectations until I finally decided to let go and ride. Rain Soaked Silk is this Friday. 🎵 The Passenger — Iggy Pop
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oh 100% 😂
It's also a little personal. 🖤 Anyway, we made Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes today. They are lovely.
And sometimes — more than I'd like to admit — it actually hurts. Like, genuinely hurts your feelings. Because you tried really hard at something and she didn't care. Because you were already having a hard day. Because you're a person.
It's okay that it hurt. It's okay to say so. It's not personal.
Sometimes it just pisses you the fuck off. You walk away. You take the deep breath. You do the thing you're trying to teach her to do.
My husband went to the punching bag the other day and she heard him and we all talked about it. The next day she was hitting her stuffie to calm down.
Sometimes it's hilarious. The sass. The stink eye. The cruelty delivered so casually you have to leave the room to laugh.
Sometimes you see the teaching moment and you know exactly which empathy framework you're going to use and it ends in hugs and snuggles and everyone grows.
Nobody prepares you for how mean your toddler will be.
Not mean like they're a bad kid. Mean like they are pure, unfiltered ego with no filter and no awareness that you are a person with feelings. 🧵 #momsky #sunday #parenting #mentalhealth
That sounds delicious!
Two round loaves of sourdough on a cooling rack. Both with the same flowering scoring pattern. A darker loaf that is a cinnamon currant and the other a lighter plain loaf.
Cinnamon Sugar Currant Loaf and and a plain loaf. Happy #SourdoughSunday
I'm told the currants are even better to use than raisins because they are smaller and distribute more evenly throughout.
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Okay I know the answer to this is just use my phone timer and set it to a happy song. BUT I wish oven timers had different options. I’m baking some pretty lovely loaves of sourdough on my sunday morning and the oven beeping is so jarring. Do better oven designers. 😂😂😂 #bakingsky #breadsky #sunday
How damn adorable is it that my mom was the first person to buy me a coffee on my substack? 😂🥰💙 #momsky #substack #writing
The very real internal battle: I have an hour or so of the house to myself. Watch an uninterrupted episode of TV and stay on the couch or do some uninterrupted yin yoga in actual silence? (either answer is correct btw) #momsky #mentalhealth #questions
Perimenopause information if you have not already learned about it. It feels good that we are finally studying women's health and not just to make men's lives better. #womenshealth #momsky #substack
Mess and Magic: Emotional Support Coffee. This is the first issue of my companion newsletter. It's a bit lighter and there's food! #substack #baking #writing #womenshealth #momsky
The kiddo and I were both exhausted. I could have taken her to her loud, fun class to "wear her out."
Instead: aquarium, jellyfish, Coney Island, mango ice cream on a bench. Calm bath. Asleep on time.
Taking care of our nervous systems starts early. 🌊🪼
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First issue of Mess and Magic drafted and scheduled for Friday. 🎉 Gave myself more homework. Worth it.
The Spins is also up now if you haven't read it yet. Loving hearing what rings true for you.
Two newsletters. One writer. Send coffee. ☕ 🔗 in bio.
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Wrote by the water today. Decompression flow. The hard stuff always finds its way out.
Also — e-notebook pen recommendations please. My Moleskine smart pen is too heavy for long sessions. Send help. 🖊️
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I want that to go away. It fades sometimes. Then it comes back in waves, like grief.
Another cycle to break. No — this time it's a cycle to shift. Still work. Still create. Just not bound by past definitions of what's valuable and what's an indulgence. 🖤
I was raised to work. So were my parents because their parents had no choice.
It's a great quality — until it's linked to guilt if it's not the "right" work. Until anything that looks like an indulgence feels like something to justify.
It is hard to not have the routine of: sit at computer, type, publish.
The walking and thinking and writing lists and ideas feels pampered. Lazy, even. Certainly not like "work."
But it is. 🧵
"They called it witchcraft when women healed with herbs but science when men put it in a pill" #witchsky
I never repost my own posts....but I'm really proud of this. This thing that kept me up writing in bed last night instead of reading/sleeping. I'm gonna choose to be proud of myself this morning. #momsky #mentalhealth #recovery
The days are always fine. My nervous system just doesn't know that yet. 🖤
It's Anansi leaving me with wild stories that never have and never will come true.
It's Hermes flying in too fast to notice until he's come, done his damage, and left again — wiping me out before anything has actually happened.
It's Reynard the Fox making me believe it's ten years ago and nothing has changed.