Finding the calm in the chaos
I am reading this book titled Rebuilding When Your Relationship Ends by Bruce Fisher, EDD, and Robert Alberti, Ph.D. as part of my divorce group therapy. The chapter we just finished was about grief. It talks about how when we lose someone we love via death, there is a ritual to help release the pain but with… Continue reading Grief: Finding gratitude in loss
My life has been turned upside down and I have been doing my best to turn it right side up again. I have been sitting on my thoughts since then because they are very heavy emotions. Last year, Ellen’s deejay, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, committed suicide. For the first time in my life, I could truly… Continue reading Be Kind, Always.
I just finished reading The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms. I don't know if I have ever connected to a story as much as I have to this one. In the story, Amy's husband left her and their two kids for three years and returned to make amends, whereas my husband mostly… Continue reading Is Your Life Overdue?
I have never been so glad to see a year meet its end. I thought 2019, the year my mother passed away, would be the year I gladly watch in the rearview mirror, but 2022 takes the cake. Not only did I realize that the life I had spent a good portion of my adulthood… Continue reading Ending the year with Gratitude
I caught myself saying 'I just want to be normal.' Just as the words left my mouth, I had a thought. Why do I want to be normal? what does it mean to be normal? One of my most memorable movie quotes is from the movie The Addams Family, originally from The Addams Family comic… Continue reading Why be normal?
This is a short story I wrote and wanted to share 🙂 This is the story of how I saved the world. One expects that when the world is at its end, there is smoke, fire, and mass hysteria. But that is not how it happened. Here is my story. It all started one sunny… Continue reading Impact – a Short Story
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