My friend stomped down the hall in frustrated disbelief. The barriers she had tried to put in place were ineffective against my feeling, and almost hearing, the thoughts she wanted to voice but withheld from our conversation. This was the…
“It’s your fault!” our older son glared at me while his brother nodded agreement. “I don’t understand.” “They aren’t fighting. It’s your fault!” “I didn’t do anything,” I said still trying to figure out what they were upset about. I had…
My grown children and their families celebrate Halloween like Easter and Christmas – decorations, parties, and special activities. Halloween means candy making, pumpkin carving, corn mazes, haunted houses, and costume parties at the zoo with friends and family. One of…
Magical thinking is a type of causal reasoning or causal fallacy that looks for meaningful relationships of grouped phenomena between acts and events. Source:Wikipedia As defined, magical thinking is a conscious association between an occurrence, an outcome, a thought, or…
The dark-eyed woman spoke on impulse, “You wouldn’t want to share my dreams.” My friend lowered her chin and looked away. “Yes, I would,” I said in thought. She had been reading what I had written about dreams and what it’s…
The following guest post is written by my friend who I refer to on this blog as Candice. – jal ——— I’ve always thought the home I bought six years ago was meant to be mine. It has a greenhouse,…
A wise person will think before making a statement concerning individuals in their life to third parties. This is particularly true of statements that are written. Authors, even authors of email and blog posts, ought to consider the impact of…
We use daily reminders like this mug to keep things in perspective. ____ When our children were young I reminded them, “It’s not just, ‘you are what you eat.’ It’s also what you think, say, and do.” Rather than allowing…
This one is to be read at night with only the light from a smartphone or small computer screen while safely in bed and under covers… ____ The home was reportedly haunted by a 3-foot tall, foul-smelling ghost. No…
The disembodied arm arched upwards through the bed’s foundation, impacting full force between my shoulder blades, causing me to shoot bolt upright in the bed. It was 1:30 in the morning midweek. I had been laying flat on my back,…
Need a lift? Are you feeling a little oppressed? Victimized? Then I have a message for you! victimhood (usually uncountable; plural victimhoods) n. 1. The state or perception of being a victim When people become mesmerized by, or buy into,…
“You’re going to write about me, aren’t you?” Liz’s* eyes drifted down to her keyboard as she prepared to generate one of the reports I had requested. “If I did,” I assured, “I’d change things.” “You’d make it so people…
His confidence is the result of handling unavoidable injuries, the revelation of hidden truths, unexpected deep psychic connections, and the derailment of the plans he had for his life. By believing everything happens for a reason and viewing the events he has survived…
The email arrived the day before the event and reads, in part: “There is a certain element of likeness that pertains to leveling your centeredness. It’s too erratic. It is like a volcano ready to erupt. You are a spectacular…
It took an extra hour to get to my hotel due to a 12-car pileup on I-75. Usually I take the scenic route but was in a hurry, so stuck to the interstate. I had been waffling on which way…
Tyler had delayed departing for a trip in order that the three of us could have time to visit. My deeper and more esoteric conversations with Andrea and Tyler tend to take place in the kitchen or the dining room….
We were in the living room.; the same place that this part of our journey started several years before. “You know,” I said, “if my vision of a life in Spain after the fall of the EU is true, we…
Andrea, sitting in the backseat of Tyler’s BMW, must have been wondering about this for a long, long time – wondering what it would have been like to grow up in that kind of home. Andrea and I respect each…
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