“I just don’t think I can take it anymore!” were the words I heard between her sobs. “I never know what ‘next thing’ will be what takes my place! First it was the beer, then the porn, then the cigar...
I had a blanket I was wrapped up in, so I could pull it up over my eyes when the witch came on the Wizard of Oz. My sister loved to watch that movie, and would beg me to watch it with her again and...
“Buckle up securely and brace for impact.” I was terrified! We were descending quickly and you could see absolutely nothing in the white-out snowstorm. We knew we were descending quickly, and suddenly...
“What really matters becomes clearer, and you just don’t care about what doesn’t matter all that much.” She continued, “We (her partner and her) were talking about something that I used to be...
“Chances are he will be unfaithful, and treat you poorly.“ I could not believe those were the words I heard from a friend who is a therapist. I was having lunch with two therapist friends, and one was...
I wanted to tell her she was just a “new kid on the block” and she didn’t have a clue what she was talking about. I had proposed, completed impeccable research and written a dynamite dissertation. My...
I was lying flat on my back. The rug had been jerked out from under my entire life. Not only was the wind blown out of my sails figuratively, but literally it was crushed out of my chest. I had given...
“She was more than my wife and my best friend, she was my Healing Partner.“ He had buried his wife a few months earlier, and we were speaking of what made a 50+ year marriage so successful. The...
“I didn’t see that coming, and now my life is forever changed!” Those were the words I wrote in my journal sitting on a plane and reflecting over the weekend I had just experienced. An old song by...
