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A Mother’s Confession

In my therapeutic journey, I’ve spent a lot of time and focus on The Plague and everything shitty that’s come from him. His toxic abuse my entire life has overshadowed almost everything else, despite there being plenty of other traumatic things I’ve had to endure… things that will eventually require my attention and some healthy…
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How Friendships Die – Darryl

I have lost many friends in my life. Be it from moving away, drifting apart, death… or – the focus for THIS entry – being completely ghosted out of the blue. And you know… 🤔 as I write this and ponder the many different friends I’ve lost, I realize that I could write a whole…
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May the 4th be With You

Oooooh! I love it when Google does fun things. Star Wars Confetti for the WIN! Here is a very cool article, written by some dude named Andy Restrepo – his picture looks very intriguing. https://en.as.com/latest_news/how-to-respond-to-may-the-fourth-be-with-you-n-2/ I am not a hard-core Star Wars nerd, mind you, but I do enjoy the entirety of it AND grew…
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The War with Empathy

Ah, yes… empathy. I’d like to believe that most people know what it is and have at least a modicum of it in their repertoire. Sadly, experience has told me otherwise. Empathy is defined as: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. For me… it’s a curse. It has caused me mountains…
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Do I Dare?!

Every once in a while I will participate in the “daily prompt” that WordPress so graciously offers (if it intrigues me :P), but those are most likely going to be a short, sort of one-off entry to get my creative juices flowing. As such, I will most likely write a 2nd entry – provided I…
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Quote to Live by…

Indeed! And there’s a bit of a story behind it (naturally)… It all started when my pending divorce was near to completion (June of 2012). I made plans with a few close girlfriends and my mom to celebrate the “escape” from Gravity’s clutches. This celebration included a Girl’s Only float trip down a local river,…
