So interesting, I enjoyed a wonderful day off work all to myself and then, while relaxing with an audio book, I was reminded of the…
Who do you crave when you are in pain? Who unfailingly welcomes and solicits your unedited truth? Is it the perpetually smiling person dedicated to the…
I felt thrilled and a little proud-ish to have enrolled in a class at the local university. I was satisfied by my initiative, planning, execution, arranging…
Deny, defend, deflect, dilute. I think it is natural to do these things when we are young and full of not knowing how to act…
Last week, when we were notified of Ecoli in our water, our local schools and restaurants closed for 2 days and residents were under a…
If the opportunity to exchange goodbyes with my mother had been possible… I would have wept, thanked, apologized, forgiven–even if she remained silent and unreceptive.…
Altruistic Donor is the term for a living donor who chooses to part with an organ for an unknown and unspecified recipient. Totally fascinated by…
While Sweet Greg and I were out for his birthday lunch last Saturday, I went to the restroom to wash my hands and saw a…
I once did pretty much all of the same shit I now will not tolerate. In recovery, I am unlearning and growing, not pretending as…
Emotionally stunted people fail to learn to accept, process, or even tolerate a full range of emotion, leaving them emotionally primitive—limited only to recognizing pleasure…