Aug 8, 2020
"The Untruth of Abuse"
When you’re married to an abusive partner, whether that abuse is physical, mental, emotional or all 3, the first order of the day is to...
Aug 5, 2020
Fair Weather Friends
When you have been through a difficult marriage and divorce, it takes a few months for the dust to settle so that you can see who the...
Jun 9, 2020
A Blueprint For Allowing Abuse!
I don’t remember the first time my mom hit me. I simply don’t remember a time when random acts of violence were absent. One of my...
May 6, 2020
My First & Worst Mother's Day!
I met my Ex on a blind date. A blind date that was so blind that everything that I had been told about him wasn’t true. Immediately there...
Feb 6, 2020
Am I Engaged to You or Your Lawyer?
About a month after we were engaged he invited me downtown for dinner adding that he needed to make a quick stop on the way. I didn’t...
Jan 3, 2020
A Wealth of Isolation
I vividly remember the first new year I spent without my closest friends. Through a series of disconnected events, my husband had managed...
Dec 22, 2019
Pictures are the same as gifts?
One of the things that was always important to me about Christmas was giving gifts. From the time I was little and still to this day,...
Dec 19, 2019
Ho Ho Ho Hepatitis
The year that my third child was born was a year of big changes for me. We had bought a beautiful new house, my true “dream home,” I had...
Nov 24, 2019
Forever Grateful
So Grateful! No matter how bad things appear to be, there is always something to be thankful for. We are grateful for the blessing of our...
Nov 1, 2019
Pumpkin Pie Dreams
With the clarity that only comes from hindsight I see the small acts of rebellion that I undertook – even if they went undetected by my...
