In a novel I am reading, one of the characters sighs and said, “ I guess it is my lot in this life to be the one to say the difficult things.”   As I pondered that sentence, which struck… Continue reading

“You will not remember the words of your enemies, but the silence of your friends.”  Martin Luther King Jr. ` Have you ever signed up for a class and when you entered you knew immediately it wasn’t going to be… Continue reading

“What is your silver lining” was asked on the Dr. Robin show today.  What wonderful gift have you found in the midst of great sorrow or trial?  What did you find out about yourself, or what surprised you as you… Continue reading

    “Life can turn on a dime, and the direction you head in when it does makes all the difference.”  Barbara Delinsky, wrote in her novel While My Sister Sleeps.   It isn’t about what happens, but how you… Continue reading

“He will die a very lonely man.”  This is what I had told my husband when we found out my father was a pedophile.   With Father’s Day fast approaching, what do I write about him?    I have put… Continue reading

In the past few days I have had the opportunity to bump into many of my past girlfriends, some as far back as 40 years ago, and some as recent as only one year. To be part of the sisterhood… Continue reading

I finally took control over it, I finally had enough, I couldn’t take it anymore, so I Unplugged it, tore out the cord from the wall and rendered it useless!    It’s power was a magnet, its pull hard for… Continue reading

Imagine that your life is a bowl of soup, that what we put in each day is what our soup will taste like.  We can only expect our soup to taste like what it is we add, nothing more and… Continue reading

I am going away today to give my kids a break.  Okay and me too.   My husband and I are taking our El Camino, a Tent and bodies weary of being sooooo responsible.  We get to be just two… Continue reading

Time, I am chasing time, time is all that matters, time for this and no time for that, and we have only a little time to finish, time for the next task, time to be done, time to go, time… Continue reading