Lately, there are a lot of thoughts rooted in confusion and helplessness bouncing around my head, cluttering my other thoughts and dominating my time awake. These can be grouped into two different categories, and I’m going to try to explain one of them. This blog exists, because my friend Paula […]

Estimated reading time: 25 minutes

I’m very easily overwhelmed emotionally, on both the positive and negative sides of the equation. And when this happens, I need time to step back and process my own feelings. This is what I’ve been doing the last week, as I mull over the events and sort through the tangled […]

Estimated reading time: 15 minutes

I can think of no better way to describe the events of October 11, 2014 than “the silent goodbye”. How does one say goodbye to someone they’ve spent their entire life loving so deeply? How do you acknowledge they’re walking out of your life forever and into the permanence of […]

Estimated reading time: 23 minutes

I don’t know what day my mom died. I know when she was legally declared dead, which would be October 27, 2014. But she was already gone before then. For weeks, I pleaded with my father to remove Mom from life support, but he refused. In his denial, he insisted […]

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

Tonight, a very lengthy post I made on a Facebook last year appeared in my “Memories” feed. Rather than share it directly on the social media platform with an equally lengthy updated sentiment, I felt it would make a grand blog post. In case you think I’m a lost cause […]

Estimated reading time: 20 minutes

Recently, I mentioned my “Stepping Stone” theory to my therapist. I wasn’t seeking her approval, nor was I hoping she’d dismiss the notion. I was simply, and quite matter-of-factly, explaining an understanding of Life I had achieved at a very early age, and how it applies to me, even now. […]

Estimated reading time: 13 minutes