I need it back now. — (While this is about suicide, it is not graphic and it’s about the person left behind.) Hello again I piled a precarious stack of books on my desk. It swayed slowly to the left and right. No matter how still I stayed, they just weren’t going to settle. When I stretched my…

We take in the sounds, but our relationships will bite the dust if we don’t go deeper. — Hearing, not listening Think of a time when you really tried to tell a person something important to you. And you’ve thought about how you want to say it, and you are eager to know the other’s response. They look at you. They nod a lot. They may be on the edge of…

The adversities in our lives can open us to a new language — Losing our words, losing our selves There are times, bad times, when language fails us. Our words disappear. It is as if our senses are severed from our ability to experience and express them. It is hard to think. It is almost impossible to communicate with even the closest of connections. For those of us who…

So, here’s more ranting and rambling — An old lady speaks her mind I realize that the two places where I’ve increased are weight and wisdom. Being the shallow person I am, I don’t care about my insights. I just want to spend the last part of my life thin. Don't believe big, bold-faced lies…unless they are yours People don't lie for any one, valid reason. They lie because they can…

Shame on Walgreens, and the most immoral “moral” men behind them. — In an unprecedented “cave-in” to the forces of darkness who read The Handmaids Tale and thought it was a swell book, Walgreen’s Pharmacies will no longer distribute the legal, approved “abortion” pills (mifepristone and misoprostol). Cowering behind concerns about money and legal troubles from roving hordes of men, primarily, who…

I thought the tears would be for me. — Today I’m not even out of bed before I have tears in my eyes. I sit down and Spotify spits out some nondescript song and I feel that hiccupping, gasping breath. “Oh, here it comes — that kind of feeling.” I am clueless about why. I don’t feel really feel…

The killer pain recedes and the journey through loss continues, with some twists along the way — The pain of grief Grief is a long road, extending from the exact moment of loss to the time when you can take nice deep clean breaths without crying, and you may actually miss a day of thinking about your lost one. I have had the exact moments — when a magistrate severed my…

It's hard to make decisions, but a bad choice is not the end of the world. Oh, the choices! Oh, the possibilities! Oh, the chances of triumph or disaster! Last night I sat next to a woman in a Korean restaurant who reviewed the menu like she was studying for…

We constantly tiptoe around these landmines in our relationships We human beings collide into each other on a regular basis. We were never made to fit together perfectly. So, we have to confront the many ways that our feelings and actions bump into each other. How do we handle inevitable…