When I was 10, we moved from one side of town to the other side. That move draws a line in my memories such that any recollections I have of the neighborhood around that first house are in the context of 5th grade and younger.
I look back now and realize that those under-10-years-old playtime […]
I have been reminded by a truth from the Book of Jonah this week. Fast forward the story in your mind, past the “disobeying God and fleeing on the ship part”. Keep going past the “thrown overboard and swallowed by the big fish/whale” then the “whale spits up Jonah on dry land”. Now slow […]
I realized recently that of all the blogs I have written over the past few years, none of them have primarily been about my second oldest son. I think that it is because I tend to focus my writing on either painful situations that I am trying to emotionally work through or on an […]
A lot of my blogs the past few months have been around the theme of choosing. As I reflect back on the reason why, I believe it is because I have finally come to understand that regardless of what is going on in my life, I always have some control.
In Viktor Frankl’s book, Man’s […]
Have you ever had a word on the “tip of your tongue” but your brain falls short of retrieving it? When that happens to me, I find that if I just relax and think about something else, the word is likely to come.
I am currently pondering the phrase in the title of this blog, […]
I woke this morning filled with anxiety…which is a prevalent state for me these days. I went downstairs to find the crock-pot (which I had carefully set up last night), had finished cooking the beef. Great…I’m so “on top of things”! I took off the lid. Along with the meat, the crock-pot had also […]
I choose pictures for my blog that represent what I am writing about, whether directly or through a visual metaphor. In this case, I chose a night sky more as a metaphor to the nightmare I will be describing. In the picture above, there is still darkness, it’s still night but there is some […]
I have seen for years now how my daughter has run simultaneous “realities” with different people. I put “reality” in quotes because though all of them have bits of truth in them, none of them reflect the complete truth of her actual lifestyle.
An analogy would be the game show that used to be on […]
A little sapling grew with 3 others in a close knit family group. One sapling looked so much like her that other trees mixed them up or just called them the twins. The little tree mostly didn’t mind but as she grew she did sometimes wish others would know her as one sapling rather […]
I am so glad that I talked recently by phone with my daughter’s fiancé and was able to get to know him, even if briefly. My impression is that of a decent young man who fell in love with an illusion of my daughter rather than the real person…or at least the real behavior.
I […]
