Finding Yourself Despite Yourself

I am a member of an online sweepstaking community that is so much more. Someone posted about the loss of her son to suicide and it wells up emotions inside of me that are unpleasant and yet triumphant. In January of 2000 my on again off again boyfriend killed himself. He listened to “Last dance [...]

During Xmas my daughter Mira fell in LOVE with her Aunt Kelly. She already felt Aunt Kelly was pretty darn cool with her lovely array of makeup and pretty earrings. This love was cemented when my little sister spent the time to paint Mira’s pretty little toes. At that moment I saw the hearts and [...]

I have been journaling on and off for years – never in one place though. I’m always surprised when I stumble across something I wrote in the back of a notebook or on an envelope. I think “I should save this” and in it goes to my find a home pile. That pile is a [...]