Vocal point
I’m working through past drama. I’m excavating. The episode I’m focusing on is from junior high school, alternatively know as “middle school” and a giant petri dish for Lord of the Flies. Does anyone...
View ArticleMy Watershed Moment: the Breakthrough I Needed to Become a Mom
October, 2000. I am on the therapist’s table. She leads me to a relaxed state of deeper consciousness. She asks me to look at my shoes. I do. They have buckles, and my story flows forth. I am 14 years...
View ArticleAll of me
I wait in the clearing for them to join me. It is my celebration, after all. The sun is shining, bathing the lea in a warm glow. There is an entire meadow of soft greenery for us to dig our toes into....
View ArticlePerfect Moment Monday: Changing my mind
For over a year, I’ve been making a conscious effort to re-examine thoughts I have about myself, and to ease up on locking my limited self in boxes. I did so last January when I morphed from the woman...
View ArticlePerfect Moment Monday: Swearing on
Back in high school, I went skiing with our church’s youth group. It was miserable and I swore off skiing forever. That was before I had a husband to please. Six years ago, I succumbed to said...
View ArticlePerfect Moment Monday: Shiny things
This is on my nightstand. No reason. ~~~~~ We’d made a deal, Tessa and I. If she could go four days in a row without any arguing with me — not over clothes, homework, TV, eating, bedtime, bathtime or...
View ArticlePerfect Moment Monday: Retreat
As part of a year-long course I’m immersed in, I had the pleasure of spending a weekend with a group of authentic and supportive women (12 of us plus a teacher) at a dude ranch called Peaceful Valley....
View ArticleBusting a Fear
You may recall that I am one of the most bawk! bawk! chicken-y people around (remember the double-dose of Xanax I needed to get through a simple LASIK procedure?). I am on a quest to bust through some...
View ArticleHow I Opened to Open Adoption
Everything I Knew About Open Adoption Was Wrong Many years ago after we’d run the gauntlet of infertility diagnoses and treatments, we set out on a new and daunting journey, that of adoption. We...
View ArticleWhat if I’m Raising Someone Else’s Children?
A comment left on a recent post caused me to revisit an article published originally on The Huffington Post, now reprinted here. Feeling Like an Imposter On a spring day many years ago, Crystal was...
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