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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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. […]
Simply put: I find him completely, utterly, and infinitely fascinating. But his looks were hardly appealing to me, when I first became enamored with the legendary David Bowie, and they continue to take a backseat to what I truly find incredible about him. I’m far from attracted to the earlier, […]
So many people don’t understand why I don’t celebrate my birthday. Not only do I avoid celebrating it, I don’t even want to be acknowledged by others. I want to simply fly under the radar, going unnoticed and forgotten. I posted this on Facebook recently, explaining my mentality, but it […]
This is a topic that’s been heavy on my heart for about a week now, intensified by the introspective wisdom found within the pages of my current read, Life is BeauTEALful: Lessons From an Ovarian Cancer Survivor, by Paula W. Millet. My normal path would be to take these difficult […]