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Slaying the dragon
Even if it is broken, it can’t always be fixed ~SN. My mother always used to tell me that I like to find the ‘broken ducks’ and fix them…..and it’s true. I seem to be magnetically drawn to people who...
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Etched under my skin
I saw this quote on Facebook the other day and it really hit me in a profound way. “Scars remind us of where we have been, but they don’t have to dictate where we are going.” (photo courtesy of...
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I’ll never really say goodbye
This post is written for my dad. Seven years ago today I watched my father take his last breath. It was a moment filled with, not only great sadness but, a small amount of relief. The years leading...
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Comes a time
The morning air was crisp and it shocked my lungs as I inhaled. The sun was doing its best to warm the day but the cold still bit at my face as I walked. The tears kept flowing and froze to my...
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Why?
This post was written for the Trifextra weekend Challenge: This weekend, we are revisiting a prompt we’ve done before. We are giving you three words and asking that you add another 33 to them to make...
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A long and bumpy road
I haven’t been able to spend much time with my words for the last few days. My mom went into the hospital on Thursday morning and I have been spending all of my days with her. She is quite sick and...
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Never Give Up – Trifecta Post
The alchemy of her feelings had changed drastically and she did not know why. She had felt rage, had felt cheated out of a big part of her life, but now felt nothing but a growing sense of peace and...
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Alcoholism – the disease that lurks in the shadows
The words that grip me today are saturated with reality. They come from a place of experience. They come from a place of sadness. But they also come from a place of honesty. This piece of writing...
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Decease and desist – Trifecta Post
His halted steps were deliberate. He had no physical ailment restraining him but the heaviness in his heart seemed to impede his movement. The church steps spanned his peripheral vision and the...
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Gone but not forgotten – Trifextra post
Confessions are never easy. There were moments that I was happy you crossed over. But then I remembered all of the good things about you and I cried because you passed too soon. ~ Written for the...
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To my mom – Trifextra Challenge
Your strength and tenacity plagues yet amazes me. You defy the odds of modern medicine and diagnosis. Despite expectation you continue to thrive and live to see another day. The gates will wait. ~...
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That glue really is Krazy stuff
My mom and dad both battled their share of medical problems. There were many trips to local hospitals and many chats with our family doctor to make difficult decisions. In early 2003, my dad became so...
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Who’s hiding behind your walls?
Today I have contributed a post at Stories That Must Not Die. It is a brief synopsis of alcoholism and growing up with two parents who were haunted by that very beast. Click here to read the story....
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The things I should remember
I have been thinking about, and talking about, my parents a lot lately. For a person my age, it is sad that I have to talk about how they used to be because they were taken far too early, both victims...
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Cut and dry
Perhaps I spent too much time worrying. After all, it wasn’t my problem but I couldn’t seem to stop ministering to his lack of self-control. I care more than he ever did and in the end I divorced the...
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Finding light in the darkness
“What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today.” ~ William Glasser (image credit) Looking back at my past, I can almost see the lines in the distance of the...
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Many memes and many jokes (mostly at men’s expense) have skirted around the fact that if a woman says, “I’m fine”, there is an emotional undertone that means something far beyond being fine. My...
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I never used to let myself think about it, about the day you wouldn’t be in my life anymore. It felt like an existence that was light years away. But reality blindsided me, and took you, without even...
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I have been thinking about my parents a lot lately. For a person my age, it is sad I have to talk about how they used to be because they were taken far too early, both victims of the serial killer...
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