Birthed in a Crucible of Despair

After a grueling nursing shift, Caroline sat alone, slumped, at the kitchen table. Head bowed down, resting on her arms with a glass of cold beer beside her. Just like the other night and the night before that.. Alone A traumatic childhood, A husband dead after eight years of wedded torment, Caroline was Alone. Shattered.……

Just Turn the Key and Open the Door

Change. I am slowly, changing.. We all want to change. However if we want to change simply to please someone else or to fit in to society out of our own vanity, that is a false wish for a change.  I am not talking about the kind of exterior adaptation  which involves switching masks or,…

Change is Organic

I slipped this phrase into yesterday’s article. I decided to bring it out of obscurity and make a badge.  “Once I say yes to change, self-growth takes on a life of its own.  I do not have to over analyze or control this maturing process because it is an organic development into wisdom and learning……

Friendship Friday – Change

What Makes Friendship Friday Unique? Friendship Friday is designed so that you can participate in the way that best suits your style Change? Who Me? I am childless for the first time in 33 1/2 years                                      ……

On the Edge and Broken

a broken paradigm    Holding a crumbling paradigm together is an exercise in futility One of my inner images which describes my struggle to surrender control is of a wagon wheel. This wheel is suspended over a deep chasm, My large family of 10 is on the rim of a wagon wheel hovering over this……

Memories of mum moments / M, M, M.

Sure, you turned out pretty good, but is there anything you wish had been different about your childhood? If you have kids, is there anything you wish were different for them?  Memories of mum moments / M, M, M. “Big B, Little b What begins with B?  Barber, baby, bubbles and a bumble bee B,B,B”……

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes/ Interior Change First

You need to make a major change in your life. Do you make it all at once, cold turkey style, or incrementally Change. Slowly. Slow and steady wins the race. Change. We all want to change. However if we want to change simply to please someone else or to fit in to society out of……